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Irish Industries Exhibit. 

Workingraan's Home. 

International Dress and 
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Electric Scenic Theater. 

Log Cabin 1776. 

Libbey Glass Works. 

Venice & Murano Company. 

Irish Village. 

Hagenbeck's Animal Show. 

Japanese Bazaar. 

Oceanic Trading Company. 

Java Village. 

Vienna Bakery and Natato- 
rium. 

Panorama of the Bernese Alps. 

German Village. 

Turkish Village. 

Street in (^airo. 

Egyptian Temple. 

Zoopraxographical Hall. 

Persian Palace. 

Moorish Palace. 

Model of Eiffel Tower. 

Parisian Art Glass Spinning. 

Ferris Wheel. 

Ice Railway. 

Model of St Peters at Roiiae. 

French Cider Press. 

Vienna Cafe. 

Algerian and Tunisian Vil- 
lage. 

East India Bazaar. 

Volcano of Kilauea. 

Old Vienna (Austrian Village) . 

Chinese Theater and Joss 
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Captive Balloon. 

Dahomey Village. 

Brazil Concert Hall. 

Lapland Village, 

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Preface. 



BY a careful perusal of this Guide to the World's Colum- 
bian Exposition, an utter stranger can easily find the exact 
location of any building on the grounds and ascertain, 
before entering, the character of exhibits each State, 
Territory and foreign country shows, where the respective 
exhibits are made, and all other information concerning the 
Fair that is of practical use and benefit to the visitor. The 
correct and complete information given in the following pages 
has been compiled from official and authentic sources, and is 
prepared from data up to the date of its issue (June 15, 1893); 
therefore it can be relied upon in ever}^ respect. 

THE PUBLISHERS, 

June 15, 1893. 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Page. 

ADMINISTRATION BUILD- 
ING— 

Location of 84 

Description of 84 

Picture of, Frontispiece and. 82 

Occupants of 84 to 86 

ADMISSION FEE 22 

ADMISSIONS AND COLLEC- 
TIONS BUILDING— 

Location of 21 

Description of 21 

AGRICULTURE, DEPART- 
MENT OF— 

Location of Building- 86 

Description of Building 86 

Picture of Building 83 

Officers of .• 195 

ALABAMA— 

Commissioners 200 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 200 

ALASKA— 

Commissioners 212 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 212 

ANNEXES 21 

ANTHROPOLOGICAL BUILD- 
ING— 

Location of 88-89 

Description of 88 

Picture of 91 

ARCHITECTS 21-22 

AREA OF BUILDINGS 22 

AREA OF GROUNDS 22 

ARGENTINE REPUBLIC— 

Where Exhibits are Made.154-155 

Character of Exhibits 154 

Commissioners 214 

ARIZONA— 

Location of Building 153 



Page. 

Description of Building 153 

Picture of Building 153 

Commissioners 212-213 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 213 

ARKANSAS— 

Location of Building 112 

Description of Building 112 

Picture of Building 112 

Commissioners 200 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 200 

arts- 
Department OF Fine Arts^ 

Location of Building 92 

Description of Building. .89 to 92 

Picture of Building 90 

Officers of 195 

Department of Liberal 
Arts— 

Character of Exhibits 96 

Officers of 195 

ART INSTITUTE 22 

ARMY AND NAVY OFFI- 
CERS 199 
ATTRACTIONS " TO " WHICH 
A N EXTRA FEE IS 

CHARGED 22 to 26 

AUSTRIA— 

Where Exhibits are Made, . . 156 

Character of Exhibits 155-156 

Commissioners 214 

B 

BATTLESHIP ILLINOIS— 

Location of 190 

Description of J90-191 

Picture of 191 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.... 194 
BOARD OF REFERENCE 

AND CONTROL 28 



10 



GENERAL INDEX. 



11 



Page. 
BOARD OF LADY MANA- 
GERS— 

How Created 27 

Officers of 197-198 

Nominated by Commission- 

ers-at-Lar^e 198 

Residents of City of Chicago 208 
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 
AND CONTROL, U. S. GOV- 
ERNMENT EXHIBIT 197 

BOATS ON INTERIOR 

WATERWAYS 27 

BONDED W^AREHOUSE 28 

BELGIUM— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 156 

Character of Exhibits 156 

Commissioners 214 

BRAZIL— 

Location of Building 156 

Description of Building. .156-157 

Picture of Building 157 

Commissioners 214 

BRITISH GUIANA— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 157 

Character of Exhibits 157 

Commissioner 214 

BRIDGES 28 

BRITISH BUILDING AND 
EXHIBITS. (See Great Brit- 
ain.) 170 to 172 

BUILDINGS, AREA OF 22 

BUILDING MATERIAL 28 

BULGARIA— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 157 

Character of Exhibits 157 

Commissioner 214 

BUREAU OF PUBLIC COM- 
FORT 30-31 

BUREAU OF ADMISSIONS 

AND COLLECTIONS.... 28 to 30 
BUREAU, L A T I N-AMERI- 
CAN— 

Promotion Abroad 51 

Members of 196 

G 

CAB RATES 53 

CAFE DE MARINE 31 

CALIFORNIA— 

Location of Building 113 

Description of Building. .118-114 

Picture of Building 118 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 114 
Commissioners , . . . 200 



Page. 
State Board of Lady Mana- 
gers 200 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 200 

CANADA— 

Location of Building 158 

Description of Building. .158-159 

Picture of Building 159 

Commissioners 214 

CAPACITY OF TRANSPOR- 
TATION LINES 49-50 

CAPE COLONY— 

Where Exhibits are Made 159-160 

Character of Exhibits 159-160 

Commissioners 215 

CASINO 31 

CEYLON— 

Location of Building 161 

Description of Building 161 

Picture of Building 161 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 162 

Character of Exhibits 162 

Commissioners 215 

CHARTER 32 

CHECKING PACKAGES 33 

CHICAGO THE SITE 21 

CHILDREN'S BUILDING— 

Location of 34 

Description of 33-34 

Picture of 34 

CHILI— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 162 

Character of Exhibits 162 

Representatives of 215 

CHORAL (FESTIVAL) HALL— 

Location of 45 

Description of 45 

CLIMATE a5 

CLIFF DWELLERS 35 

CLOSETS m 

COLD STORAGE 35 

COLORADO— 

Location of Building Il4 

Description of Building. .114-115 

Picture of Building ,. 114 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 115 

Commissioners 200 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 200 

COLOMBIA— 

Location of Building 162 

Description of Building. .162-168 

Picture of Building 162 

Commissioners 215 

COLONIAL EXHIBIT 193 



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GENERAL INDEX. 



COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER—^^' 

Relics of 62 

Celebration 21 

COLUMBIAN GUARD— 

Duties of 35-86 

Officers of 199 

COMMISSIONERS— 
From the States and Terri- 
tories — 

How Appointed 36 

Powers and Functions 36 

Names of 200 to 213 

National — 

How appointed 67 

Powers and Functions 58 

Names of 200 to 213 

Foreign — 

Names of 214 to 220 

COMMISSION, WORLD'S CO- 
LUMBIAN— 

Duties and Powers of 80-81 

Officers of 197-198 

COMPARED WITH PHILA- 
DELPHIA AND PARIS EX- 
POSITIONS 36 

CONCERTS 37 

CONCESSIONS 37-38 

CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLA- 
TION 75-76 

CONNECTICUT— 

Location of Building 115 

Description of Building. .115-116 

Picture of Building 115 

Where Exhibits are Made.. . 116 
State Board of Lady Man- 
agers 201 

Commissioners 201 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 201 

CONVENT OF LA RABIDA- 

Location of 41 

Picture of 40 

Relics of Columbus shown in 62 
CORPS OF GUIDES 48 

COSTA RICA— 

Location of Building 163-164 

Description of Building. .163-164 

Picture of Building 163 

Commissioners 215 

COUNCIL OF A D M I NI S- 
TRATION— 

Duties and Powers of . . . .38 to 41 
Members of 194 



Page. 

CUBA— 

Where Exhibits are Made, . . 164 

Character of exhibits 164 

Delegate from (see Spain). . , 220 

CURACAO— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 164 

Character of Exhibits 164 

Commissioner 215 

D 

DAILY "COLUMBIAN" 41 

DAIRY EXHIBITS— 

(See Department of Agricult- 
ure.) 86 

DAVY CROCKETT CABIN.. 41 

DEDICATION OF THE EX- 
POSITION 41 

DELAWARE— 

Location of Building 116 

Description of Building 116 

Picture of Building 116 

Commissioners 201 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 201 

DENMARK— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 164 

Character of Exhibits 164-165 

Commissioners 215 

DIRECTOR-GENERAL— 

Duties and Powers of 41 

Officers of his Department.194-195 

DIRECTOR OF WORKS— 

Duties and Powers of 41-42 

Officers of his Department.. 196 

DRINKING WATER 42 

DUCKER HOSPITAL 42 



! ECUADOR— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 165 
Character of Exhibits. . . . 165-166 

Commissioners 215 

ELECTRICITY, DEPART- 
MENT OF— 

Location of Building 86 

Description of Building 86-87 

Picture of Building..." 88 

Officers of 195 

ELECTRIC LIGHTING 42 

ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN 42 

ELEVATED RAILROAD. 

(INTRAMURAL) 50 

EMERGENCY HOSpiTAL.42 to 44 



GENERAL INDEX. 



IS 



Page. 
E T H N O L OGY, D K P A R T- 
MENT OF— 

Scope and Plan of 87 to 89 

Officers of 195-PJ6 

F 

FESTIVAL (CHORAL) HALL. . 45 
FINE ARTS, DEPARTxMENT 
OF— 

Location of Building 92 

Description of Building. .89 to 92 

Picture of Building .. 90 

Officers of 195 

FIRE DEPARTMENT 45 

"FIRE QUEEN" 45 

FISH AND FISHERIES, DE- 
PARTMENT OF— 

Location of Building 92 

Description of Building 92 

Picture of Building 94 

Officers of 195 

FLORICULTURE— 

(See Department of Horticult- 
ure.) 
FLORIDA— 

Location of Building 117 

Description of Building 117 

Picture of Building 117 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 117 

Commissioners 201-202 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 201 

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DE- 
PARTMENT OF— 

Officers of 196 

FOREIGN PARTICIPATION. 

154 to 188 
FOREIGN COMMISSIONERS. 

214 to 220 
FOREIGN CONSULS IN CHI- 
CAGO 45-46 

FORESTRY, DEPARTMENT 
.OF— 

Location of Building 92 

Description of Building 92-98 

Picture of Building 95 

Superintendent of 195 

FOUNTAINS 46 to 48 

FOUR HUNDREDTH ANNI- 
VERSARY OF THE LAND- 
ING OF COLUMBUS 21 

FRANCE— 

Location of Building 106 

Description of Building 166 



Page 

Picture of Building 167 

Where Exhibits are Made.166-167 

Character of Exhibits 166-167 

Commissioners 216 

G 

GALLERIES OF FINE ARTS.. 

89 to 92 

GEORGIA— 

Commissioners 202 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 202 

GERMANY— 

Location of Building 167 

Description of Building.167 to 169 

Picture of Building •. 168 

Where Exhibits are Made.169-170 
Character of Exhibits. . . . 169-170 
Commissioners 216 

GONDOLAS 27 

GRADING AND DREDGING. 48 

GRAND CENTRAL COURT.. 48 

GREAT BRITAIN— 

Location of Building. ....... 170 

Description of Building. 170 to 172 

Picture of Building 171 

Where Exhibits are Made . . 172 

Character of Exhibits 172 

Commissioners * 216-217 

GREECE— 

Where Exhibits are Made . . 172 

Character of Exhibits 172 

Commissioners 217 

GUATEMALA— 

Location of Building 172 

Description of Building. .172-173 

Picture of Building 173 

Commissioners 217 

GUIDES, CORPS OF 48 

HACK RATES 53 

HAYTI— 

Location of Building 173 

Description of Building. .173-174 

Picture of Building 174 

Commissioners 217 

HOME OF IZAAK WALTON.48-49 

HONDURAS— 

Where Exhibits are Made . . 174 

Character of Exhibits 174 

Representatives of 217 



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GENERAL INDEX. 



Page. 
HORTICULTURE, DEPART- 
MENT OF— 

Location of Building 93 

Description of Building. 93 to 96 

Picture of Building 98 

The Floral Display 96 

Officers of 195 

HOSPITAL. EMERGENCY.42 to 44 

HOSPITAL, DUCKER 42 

HOTELS 49 

HOW TO REACH THE 
GROUNDS 49-50 

1 

IDAHO— 

Location of Building 117 

Description of Building 118 

Picture of Building 118 

Where Exhibits are Made . . 118 

Commissioners 202 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 202 

ILLINOIS— 

Location of Building 119 

Description of Building. .119-120 

Picture of Building 120 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 120 

Commissioners 202 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers . ^ 203 

Illinois Woman's Exposition 

Board 203 

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAIL- 
ROAD 49 

INDIA— 

Location of Building 174 

Description of Building. .174-175 

Picture of Building 175 

Character of Exhibits 175 

Commissioner 217 

INDIANA— 

Location of Buildmg 121 

Description of Building. .121-122 

Picture of Building 121 

Where Exhibits Are Made.. 122 

Commissioners 203 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 203 

INDIANS 53 

INDIAN SCHOOL 60 

INSURANCE 50 

INTERIOR WATERWAYS... 50 
INTRAMURAL RAILROAD . 50 
INVITATION TO THE. 
WORLD 50 



Page. 

IOWA— 

Location of Building 122 

Description of Building. .122-123 

Picture of Building 122 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 122 

Commissioners 203 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 203 

State Board of Lady Man- 
agers 208 

ITALY— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 175 

Character of Exhibits 175 

Commissioners 217 

J 

JAPAN— 

Location of Building 176 

Description of Building. .176-177 

Picture of Building 176 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 177 

Character of Exhibits 17-7 

Conmiissioners 217-218 

JAMAICA— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 177 

Character of Exhibits 177 

Commissioners 218 

JOHORE— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 177 

Character of Exhibits 177 

Commissioners 218 

K 

KANSAS— 

Location of Building 123 

Description of Building 123 

Picture of Building 123 

Commissioners 204 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 204 

KENTUCKY— 

Location of Building 124 

Description of Building. .124-125 

Picture of Building 124 

Where Exhibits are Made. . 125 

Commissioners 204 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 204 

KOREA— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 178 

Character of Exhibits 178 

Commissioners 218 

KRUPP GUN EXHIBIT 50-51 



GENERAL INDEX. 



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Page. 

L> 

LA RABIDA, CONVENT OF. . 40 
LADY MANAGERS, NATION- 
AL BOARD OF— 

How Created 27 

Officers of .197-198 

Nominated by Commission- 

ers-at-Large 198 

Residents of the City of Chi- 
cago 183 

L A T I N-A MERICAN BU- 
REAU— 

Promotion Abroad 51 

Members of 19G 

LAW AS TO THE SALE OF 

FOREIGN GOODS 52 

LEATHER AND SHOE 
TRADES BUILDING— 

Location of 52 

Description of 52 

Picture of 52 

Character of Exhibits f;2-53 

LEGAL RATES FOR CAB 
AND HACK HIRE 53 

LIBERAL ARTS, DEPART- 
MENT OF— 

Character of Exhibits 96 

Officers of 195 

LIBERIA— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 178 

Character of Exhibits 178 

Commissioners 218 

LIQUOR, SALE OF 62 

LIVING INDIANS 53 

LIVE STOCK, DEPART- 
MENT OF— 

Location of Pavilion 96 

Description of Pavihon 96 

When Exhibits are to be 

Made 97 

Character of Exhibits 97 

Superintendents 97 

LOGGERS' CAMP 53 

LOUISIANA— 

Location of Building 125 

Description of Building . .125-126 

Picture of Building 125 

Where Exhibits are Made, . . 126 

Commissioners 204 

Ladies' Auxiliary Board 204 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 204 



Page. 

M 

MACHINE SHOP 53 

MACHINERY, DEPART- 
MENT OF— 

Location of Building 97 

Description of Building. 97 to 100 

Picture of Building 99 

Officers of 195 

MAINE— 

Location of Building 126 

Description of Building 126 

Picture of Building 126 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 126 

Commissioners 204—205 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 205 

MANUFACTURES, DE- 
PARTMENT OF— 

Location of Building 100 

Description of Building ..100-101 

Picture of Building 102 

Officers of 195 

MARYLAND— 

Location of Building 127 

Description of Building 127 

Picture of Building 127 

Commissioners 205 

Committee on Wo ma n's 

Work 205 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 205 

MASSACHUSETTS— 

Location of Building 127 

Description of Building. .127-128 

Picture of Building . . ." 128 

Commissioners 205 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 205 

MEDALS AND DIPLOMAS .. 53 

MERCHANT TAILOR S" 
BUILDING 53-54 

MEXICO— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 178 

Character of Exhibits 178 

Commissioners 218 

MICHIGAN— 

Location of Building. 128 

Description of lUiilding. . 128-129 

Picture of Building ; 129 

Conmiissioners 205 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 205 

MIDWAY PLAISANCE 54-56 



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GENERAL INDEX. 



Page. 

MINES AND MINING, DE- 
PARTMENT OF— 

Location of Building 104 

Description of Building.104 to 106 

Picture of Building 103 

Officers of 195 

MINNESOTA— 

Location of Building 129 

Description of Building. .129-130 

Picture of Building 129 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 139 

Commissioners 206-206 

Woman's Auxiliary Board.. 206 
National Board Lady Man- 
agers 206 

MISCELLANEOUS BLDGS... Ill 

Mississippi- 
Commissioners 206 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 206 

MISSOURI— 

Location of Building 130 

Description of Building. .130-131 

Picture of Building 130 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 131 

Commissioners 206 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 206 

MODEL OF WORKINGMAN'S 
HOME 55 

MONACO— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 178 

Character of Exhibits 178 

Commissioners 218 

MONTANA— 

Location of Building 131 

Description of Building. .131-132 

Picture of Building 131 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 132 

Commissioners 206 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 206 

MUSIC HALL— 

Location of Building 55 

Description of Building. 55 to 59 

Picture of Building 56 

Plan for Music- 57 



N 



NATIONAL COMMISSIONERS- 
HOW Appointed 57-58 

Names of 200 to 213 

Officers of 197-198 



Page. 

NEBRASKA— 

Location of Building 132 

Description of Building. .132-133 

Picture of Building 132 

Commissioners 207 

Woman's Auxiliary Board.. 207 
National Board Lady Man- 
agers 207 

NETHERLANDS— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 178 

Character of Exhibits 178 

Commissioners 218 

NEVADA— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 133 

Character of Exhibits 133 

Commissioners 207 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 207 

NEW ENGLAND CLAM 
BAKE 58 

NEW HAMPSHIRE— 

Location of Building 133 

Description of Building. .133-134 

Picture of Building 133 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 134 

Commissioners ... 207 

National Board LaJy Man- 
agers 207 

NEW JERSEY— 

Location of Building 134 

Description of Building. .134-135 

Picture of Building 134 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 135 

Commissioners 207 

Lady Board of Managers... 207 
National Board- Lady Man- 
agers 207 

NEW MEXICO— 

Location of Building 153 

Description of Building 153 

Picture of Building 153 

Commissioners 213 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 213 

NEW SOUTH WALES— 

Location of Building 180 

Description of Building 180 

Picture of Building 179 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 180 

Character of Exhibits 180 

Commissioners 218 

NEW YORK— 

Location of Building 135 

Description of Building . 135 to 137 
Picture of Building 136 



GENERAL INDEX. 



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Pajre. 
Where Exhibits are Made.. 187 

Commissioners 208 

Board of Woman Managers. 208 
National Board Lady Man- 
agers 208 

NORTH CAROLINA— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 

Commissioners 208 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 208 

NORTH DAKOTA— 

Location of Building 137 

Description of Building. .137-138 

Picture of Building 138 

Commissioners 209 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 209 

NORWAY— 

Location of Building 180 

Description of Building 180 

Picture of Building 181 

■ Where Exhibits are Made.180-181 

Character of Exhibits 180-181 

Commissioners 218-219 

o 

OFFICERS WORLD'S COLUM- 
BIAN EXPOSITION.. . .194 to 196 

OFFICERS WORLD'S CO- 
LUMBIAN COMMISSION.197-198 

OHIO— 

Location of Building 138 

Description of Building. 138 to 140 

Picture of Building 138 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 140 

Commissioners 2j9 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 209 

OKLAHOMA— 

Location of Building 153 

Description of Building 153 

Picture of Building 153 

Commissioners 213 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 213 

OLD TIMES DISTILLERY. . . 58 

ORANGE FREE STATE— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 182 

Character of Exhibits 182 

Commissioners 219 

OREGON— 

Commissioners 209 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 209 

2 



ORIGIN OF THE EXPOSI- 
TION 58 

OTHER INTERNATIONAL 
EXPOSITIONS SB 

P 

PARAGUAY— 

Commissioners 219 

PASSES...... 72 

PENNSYLVANIA— 

Location of Building 140 

Description of Building. .140-141 

Picture of Building 140 

Where Exhibits are Made.142-143 

Commissioners 209-210 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 210 

PERISTYLE 58 

PERSIA— 

Where Exhibits are Made., 182 

Character of Exhibits 182 

Commissioners 219 

PIERS 58-59 

POLISH BUILDING 58 

POMOLOGICAL EXHIBIT— 
(See Department of Horticult- 
ure.) 
PORTUGAL— 

Where Exhibits are Made.. 182 

Character of Exhibits 182 

Commissioners 219 

POSTOFFICE 60 

POWER HOUSE 60 

PUBLIC COMFORT, BUREAU 
OF— 

Officers of 196 

PUBLICITY AND PROMO- 
TION, DEPARTMENT OF— 

Work Accomplished 60 

Officers of 196 

"PUCK" BUILDING 60 

PUMPING WOUKS 60 

Q 

QUADRIGA, THE COLUM- 
BUS 60 

R 

RAILWAY TERMINAL STA- 
TION 69-70 

RAILWAY TRACKS 71-72 



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GENERAL INDEX. 



Page. 
RECEIPTS AND DISBURSE- 
MENTS 60 to 62 

RELICS OF COLUMBUS 62 

RED CROSS SOCIETY— 

(See Emergency Hospital.) 
REHAN, STATUE OF MISS 

ADA 132 

REPUBLIC, STATUE OF THE 

66-67 

RESTAURANTS 31 

RHODE ISLAND— 

Location^of Building 143 

Description of Building. .143-144 

Picture of Building 143 

Commissioners 210 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 210 

ROOMS 31 

RUINS OF YUCATAN 62 

RUSSIA— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 182 

Character of Exhibits 182 

Commissioners .219-220 

s 

SALE OF LIQUOR 62 

SAW MILL EXHIBIT 62-63 

SERVICE BUILDING 63 

SEWERAGE 63 

SIAM— 

Character of Exhibits 182 

Commissioners 220 

SITE OF THE EXPOSITION. 63 
SOUTH CAROLINA— 

Commissioners 210 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 210 

SOUTH DAKOTA— 

Location of Building 144 

Description of BuiTding 144 

Picture of Building 144 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 

Commissioners 210 

Woman's World's Fair Com^ • 

mission 210 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 210 

SPAIN— 

Location of Building 182 

L^escription of Building 182 

Picture of Building 183 

Where Exhibits are Made 

182 to 184 
Character of Exhibits. 182 to 184 
Commissioners 220 



Pape. 

SPECIAL DAYS 64 

STAFF 68 

STATUARY 64 to 68 

ST. THOMAS— 

Character of Exhibit 184 

Commissioner 220 

SWEDEN— 

Location of Building 184 

Description of Building. .184-185 

Picture of Building 185 

Where Exhibits are Madel85-186 

Commissioners 220 

SWITZERLAND— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 186 

Character of Exhibits 186 

Commissioners 220 



TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.. 69 
TELEPHONE FACILITIES. . . 69 
TENNESSEE— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 210 

Commissioners 211 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 69-70 

1 TERMINAL RAILWAY STA- 
TION 69-70 

TERMINAL TRACKS 71-72 

TERRITORIAL BUILDING.. 
TEXAS— 

Location of Building 145 

Description of Building 145 

Picture of Building 145 

Commissioners 211 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 211 

TICKET BOOTHS AND EN- 
TRANCES 73-74 

TICKETS AND PASSES 72 

TOILET ROOMS 74 

TRANSPORTATION EXHIB- 
ITS, DEPARTMENT OF— 

Location of Building 106 

Description of Building 106 to 109 

Picture of Building 108 

Officers of 195 

TRANSPORTATION LINES, 

CAPACITY OF 49-50 

TRANSPORTATION DE- 
PARTMENT, OFFICERSOF 196 
TRINIDAD— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 186 

Character of Exhibits 186 

Commissioner 220 



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Page. 
TURKEY— 

Location of Building 180 

Description of Huilding. .180-187 

Picture of Building 187 

Commissioners 220-221 

u 

URUGUAY— 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 187 

Character of Exhibits 187 

Commissioners 221 

UNITED STATES GOVERN- 
MENT EXHIBIT— 

Location of Building 190 

Description of Uuilding.. . 190-191 

Picture of Building 189 

Departmental Exhibits. 190 to WS 
Board of Management and 

Control 197 

UTAH— 

Location of Building 145 

Description of Building.. .145-146 

Picture of Builtling 146 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . l46 

Commissioners 21.'J 

Territorial Board Lady Man- 
agers 213 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 213 

V 

VEHICLES AND SUPPLIES— 

Rules Regarding 74-75 

VENEZUELA— 

Location of Building 187 

Description of Building . . . 187-188 

Picture of Building 188 

Commissioners 221 

VERMONT— 

Location of Building 146 

Description of Building. 146 to 149 

Picture of Building 148 

Commissioners 211 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 211 

VIADUCTS 211 

VIRGINIA— 

Location of Building 147 

Description of Building. .147-148 

Picture of Building 148 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 149 



Page. 

Commissioners 211 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 211 

VOTE IN CONGRESS ON 
LOCATION 75-76 

w 

WAITING ROOMS 20 

WASHINGTON— 

Location of Building 149 

Description of Building. .149-150 

Picture of Building 149 

Commissioners 212 

Washington Board of Lady 

Managers 212 

National Board Lady Man- 
agers 212 

WASHINGTON'S BIG TREE. 76 

WATER CLOSETS 

WATER TRANSPORTATION 

WEST VIRGINIA— 

Location of Building 150 

Description of Building. .150-151 

Picture of Building 150 

Where Exhibits are Made. . . 151 

Commissioners 212 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 212 

WHITE STAR BUILDING. . . . 76 
WINE EXHIBIT- 

(See Department of Horti- 
culture.) 
WINDMILL EXHIBIT 76 

WISCONSIN— 

Location of Building 151 

Description of Building 151 

Picture of Building 151 

Where Exhibits are Made. , 151 

Commissioners 212 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 212 

WOMAN'S BUILDING— 

Location of 110 

Description of 110-111 

Picture of 109 

WOMAN'S DORMITORY. .76 to 79 

WOODED ISLAND 79 

WORK OF ORGANIZATION.. 79 
WORLD'S COLUMBIAN COM- 
MISSION— 

Duties and Powers of 80-81 

Officers of 197-198 



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Page, 
WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EX- 
POSITION— 

Duties and Powers of 79-80 

Officers of 194 to 196 

WORLD'S CONGRESS AUX- 
ILIARY— 
Officers of 199 

WYOMING— 

Location of Building 152 



Page. 

Description of Building-. .152-153 

Picture of Building 152 

Commissioners 212 

National Board Lady Mana- 
gers 212 

Y 

YUCATAN, RUINS OF 87 



LIST or ILLUSTRATIONS. 



A 

Page. 
Administration Buildiug, Frontispiece 
and 82 

Agricultural Building 83 

Anthropological Building 91 

Arkansas Building 112 

Arizona (Joint) Building 153 

B 

Rattle Ship Illinois (Naval Exhibit) 191 

Hlackmar, Paul 30 

Brazilian Building 157 

Burnham, D. H 41 

c 

California Building 113 

Canada Building 159 

Casino 32 

Ceylon Buildiag IBl 

Children's Building... 34 

Colorado Building.. 114 

Colombia Building 162 

(Connecticut Building 115 

(^onvent of La Kabida 4() 

Costa Rica Building 163 

Council of Administration 39 

D 

Davis, George R 41 

Delaware Building 116 

Dome of Pennsylvania Building ^41, 142 

E 

East India Building 175 

Entrance to Basin 43 

Electric Fountain.. 47 

Electricity Building 88 

Electricity Building (South Entrance)... 61 

F 

Fine Arts Building 90 

Fish and Fisheries Building... 94 

Florida Building. 11? 

Forestry Building 95 

Franklin Statue S7 

French Building.. 167 

G 

German Building 168 

Gondolas on Lagoons 27 

Golden Door, Transportation Exhibits 

Building 106 

Great Britain's Building (Victoria House) 171 
Guatemala Building... 173 



H 

Page. 

Handy. M. P.- 60 

Haytian Building 174 

Hooden House (Japanese Building) 17H 

Horticultural Hall 98 



I 

Idaho Building 118 

Illinois Buildiug _. 120 

India (East) Building 175 

Indiana Building 121 

Iowa Building 122 



Japanese Building 176 

K 

Kansas Building 123 

Kentucky BuiJding 124 



Louisiana Building 125 

Leather and Shoe Trades Building 52 

M 

Machinery Hail 99 

MacMonnie's Fountain 47 

Maine Building 126 

Manufactures Building . 102 

Manufactures Building (West Side of)- . 71 
Manufactures Building looking from 

Balcony of Machinery Hall 101 

Maryland Building 127 

Massachusetts Building 128 

Merchant Tailors' Building.. 54 

Michigan Building 129 

INIines and Mining Building 103 

Minnesota Building 129 

Missouri Building 130 

Montana Building l:U 

Music Hall 5) 

N 

Naval Exhibit (Battleship Illinois) 191 

Nebraska Building... 132 

"Neptune" (Statue of). 67 

New Hampshire Building 133 

New Jersey Building 134 

New Mexico (Joint) Building 153 

New South Wales Building 179 

New York Building 136 

North Dakota Building 138 

North End Transportation Exhibits Build- 
ing.... 107 

Norwegian Building 181 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



N 

Page. 

Naval Exhibit (Battleship Illinois) 191 

Nebraska Building _.. 132 

"Neptutie" (Statue of) 67 

New Hampshire Building 338 

New Jersey Building 134 

New Mexico (Joint) Building 153 

New South Wales Building 179 

New York Building 136 

North Dakota Building 138 

North End Transportation Exhibits Build- 
ing 107 

Norwegian Building 181 

o 

OflScers World's Columbian Exposition.. 78 
Officers World's Columbian Commission 77 

Officers Board of Lady Managers 29 

Oklahoma (Joint) Building 153 

Ohio Building 138 

Ohio Soldiers' Monument 139 

P 

Palmer, Mrs Potter 29 

Palmer, Thomas W 77 

Peck, Ferdinand W 78 

Peristyle 59 

Penn, Davidson R 77 

Pennsylvania Building 140 

Pennsylvania Building (Dome of) 141, 142 

Piatt, H. P 77 

Price, Mrs. Charles.. 29 

Public Comfort Building 31 

R 

Rice, Lieut.-Col. Edmund 35 

"Republic" (Statue of) 68 

Rhode Island Bui I d»ig 143 

S 

Seeberger, Anthony F. 78 

South Dakote Building 144 

Spanish Bufldine 183 

Statuary at South Entrance of Illinois 
Building 119 



Page. 
Statuary near West Entrance of Agricult- 
ural Building _. 86 

Statuary on Bridges 25 

Strttuary on Administration Building .. 65, 66 

Statuary on Horticultural Building 93 

Statuary on Transportation Exhibits 

Building 155 

Statuary MacMonnie's Fountain 46 

Swedish Building... 185 

T 

Terminal Railway Station 70 

Territorial Building (Arizona, New Mex- 
ico and Oklahoma) • 153 

Texas Building 145 

Transportation Exhibits Building... 108 

Trautman, Mrs. Ralph 29 

Tucker, Horace 30 

Turkish Building 187 

Turkish Musicians 186 

u 

iJtah Building 146 

United States Government Building 189 

V 

Venetian Gondolas on Lagoon 27 

Venezuelan Building 188 

Vermont Building 147 

"Victoria House" (Great Britain) 171 

Virginia Building 148 

View from Dome of Administration Build- 
ing 75 

View from South end of Basin 23 

View looking West showing South end of 
Manufactures Building and Electricity 
and Mines Buildings in the distance.. 105 

w 

Waller, Robert A 78 

Waller, Thomas M 77 

Washington Building 149 

West Virginia Building 1.50 

\Vilkins, Mrs. Beriah 29 

W^isconsin Building 1.51 

Woman's Building 109 

Wyoming Building 152 



Points of Interest. 



The sentimental side of the World's Columbian Exposition — cele- 
brating the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Christopher 
Columbus — is happily blended with the practical; and in this utilitarian 
age no fitter site could have been selected than the wonderful city 
of Chicago. In 1837 this city had a population of 4,170; in 1847 it was 
16.859; in 1855 it was 80,000; in 1860 it was 100,206; in 1866 it had grown to 
200,418. In 1870 it had 306,605, and at least two-thirds of the city was 
desti-oyed by fire in 1871. That fearful disaster, however, did not impede 
the wonderful progress made, for in 1880 it had 503,185. In 1886 it was 
703,817. In 1890 it" was 1,066,213 and the United States census of 1890 gave 
the population at 1,098,850. The school census, taken the same year, 
showed the population to be 1,208,669, and conservative estimates give the 
city at least 1,500,000 at the present time. These figures are exclusive of 
visitors, at least 100,000 of whom arrive and depart every week. The area 
of the city is about 25 miles in length by 10 miles in width, and its many 
attractions of all kinds add no little to the pleasures of visitors to the Fair. 
This Guide is compiled particularly for information concerning the great 
Exposition, and the following is a brief description of what can be seen 
there: 

Admission Fee. — For each person over 12 years of age, 50 cents. 
Children, under 6 years old, free; from 6 to 12, 25 cents. 

Admissions and Collections Buildings. — This building is occupied 
by the auditor, treasurer, superintendent of admissions and superintendent 
of collections and their staffs. The building is 162x70 feet, two stories high 
and covers a ground area of 11,340 square feet. It is located immediately 
west of the Horticultural Hall and north of the Service Building. It cost 
$35,000. 

Annexes. — All of the annexes are scarcely less imposing and archi- 
tecturally beautiful than the main buildings themselves. The live-stock 
sheds, which cover an immense area, were constructed as inexpensively as 
possible without marring the general architectdral effect. The power 
houses, pumping works, etc., are exhibits in themselves, and so constructed 
as to be readily inspected by visitors. 

Architects. — Richard M. Hunt, Administration Building; W. L. B. 
Jenney, Horticultural Building; McKimm, Mead & White, Agricultural 

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Building; Adler & Sullivan, Transportation Building; George B. Post 
Manufactures Building; Henry Ives Cobb, Fish and Fisheries Building; 
Peabody & Stearns, Machinery Building; S. S. Beman, Mines and Mining 
Building; Van Brunt & Howe, Electricity Building; C. B. Atwood, De- 
signer-in-chief of the Construction Department, is the architect of the Peri- 
style, Music Hall and Casino, and Fine Arts, Forestry and Dairy buildings, 
and the Terminal Railway Station. Miss Sophia B. Hayden is the archi- 
tect of the Woman's Building, 

Area of Buildings. — The total exhibition area under roof of all the 
buildings erected by the Exposition company is 199.9 acres. Of this, about 
50 acres are in galleries, and 40 acres in the live-stock sheds. 

Area of the Grounds. — Six hundred and thio-ty-three acres. Of this, 
80 acres are in the Midway Plaisance and 553 acres in Jackson Park. There 
was available for buildings 556 acres, there being 77 acres in the wooded 
island and the interior water-ways. 

Art Institute. — The Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition 
contributed §20,000 toward the building of the new Art Institute, located on 
the Lake Front, at the foot of Adams street, and the Exposition is inter- 
ested in the institution. It is built of stone, in renaissance style, and is 340 
feet long and 180 feet wide. It cost $600,000. It is open free to the public 
on Wednesdays, Saturdays, all legal public holidays, and from 1 to 5 
o'clock Sundays. At other times an admission fee is charged. 

Attractions To Which an Extra Fee Is Charged. — Following are 
the attractions on the grounds to which, in nearly all cases, an extra fee is 
charged in addition to the admission fee of 50 cents. These attractions are 
the property of private individuals or corporations and are not integral 
parts of the Exposition proper: 

Constantinople Street Scene, Midway Plaisance — Turkish Theatre 
admission 25 and 50 cents; Persian tent, admission 25 cents; panorama, 
Syrian photos, admission 25 cents; Turkish restaurant; native musical per- 
formances, tribe of Bedouins, admission 25 cents. 

Cairo Street, Midway Plaisance — Egyptian amusements, native danc- 
ing, snake-charmers, fortune-tellers, conjurors, musical and theatrical per- 
formances, collections, photos, pictures and paintings, wedding proces- 
sions and mouled; admission to streets, 10 cents* to theater, 25 cents. 
Egyptian temple, admission 25 cents. 

Java Village, Midway Plaisance — Theater and curies; admission, 25 
cents. 

South Sea Island Theater, Midway Plaisance — Performances by na- 
tives of Samoa, Fiji and Wallis Islands; admission, 25 cents. 

German Village and Town of Mediaeval Times, Midway Plaisance — 
German and Bavarian bands in connection with restaurant, museum of 
curios, antiquities and works of art peculiar to Germany. Admission, 25 
cents. German tribes representing house of the Upper Bavarian Moun- 



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tains, Black Forest or Alsatian, the Allman Tribe, the Hessian or Alten- 
burg House of Silesian Bauren, Middle Germans, Westphalian Hof of the 
Lower Saxons, etc. Such tribes and houses constitute the village. Ad- 
mission 25 cents. 

Natatorium, Midway Plaisance— Natatorium with musical peform- 
ances. Admission, with use of baths, -50 cents. 

Esquimau Village, Jackson Park — Esquimau village, Labrador trading 
post, and native exhibit. Admission 25 cents. 




LOOKINa WEST FROM SOUTH END OF BASIN. 

Moorish Palace, Midway Plaisance — Exhibit and sale of native goods, 
chamber of horrors, trip through Switzerland, trip to the moon, camera 
obscura, representatives in wax, etc. Moorish Palace, right to exhibit 
$1,000,000 in gold coin. Cafe in connection. Admission to amusement fea- 
tures, 25 cents. 

Panorama of Bernese Alps, Midway Plaisance — Scenery of Switzer- 
land. Amission 50 cents; children 25 cents. 

Panorama of Volcano of Mount Kilauea, Midway Plaisance— Painting 



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to faithfully reproduce in miniature the volcano action of the crater of 
Mount Kilauea. Admission 50 cents; children 25 cents. 

Hungarian Concert Pavilion and Cafe, Midway Plaisance — Musical 
entertainments, theatrical performances, gypsy bands, native performers in 
native dress. Admission 25 cents. 

Venetian Glassware and Mosaics, Midway Plaisance — Factory in full 
operation, tale of Venetian and Florentine wares. Admission 25 cents. 

Chiiiese Village, Midway Plaisance— Chinese village, theatre with 
native performers. Joss house and Chinese tea garden and cafe. To 
theatre and Joss house admission 25 cents each. 

Irish Village and Blarney Castle, Midway Plaisance— Representing 
ruins of Blarney Castle, exhibit and sale of Irish products by natives; ad- 
mission 25 cents. 

Lectures on Animal Locomotion, Jackson Park — Lectures on Animal 
Locomotion, illustrating science of animal locomotion and zoopraxiscopic 
fans. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

Nippon Tea House, Wooded Island, Jackson Park — Japanese tea 
house, light lunches and samples of high priced teas. Admissions 10 cents, 

25 cents, and 50 cents. 

Persian Building, Midway Plaisance — Exhibit, manufacture and sale 
of distinctively Persian goods. Musical entertainments, etc., native artisans 
and performers. Admission 50 cents. 

Ruins of the Cliff Dwellers, Jackson Park — Representation of ruins of 
the Cliff dwellers, antiquities and curiosities connected therewith. Admis- 
sion 25 cents. 

Costumed Natives of Forty Countries, Midway Plaisance — Exhibit of 
natives, appropriately costumed, from at least forty of the countries of the 
world; sell photographs of same. Admission 25 cents. 

Typical Irish Village with Native Inhabitants, Midway Plaisance. 
Admission 25 cents. 

Japanese Bazaar, Midway Plaisance — Manufacture and sale of Japan- 
ese articles; native attendants. No admission fee. 

Vienna Cafe and Concert Hall, Midway Plaisance— Restaurant, with 
musical performances. No admission fee. 

Competitive Musical Exercises, Festival Hall — Musical exercises Sept. 
6, 7 and 8. Prices to be approved by Exposition company. 

Model of St. Peter's Church, Rome, Midway Plaisance — Admission 
25 cents. 

Hagenback's Zoological Arena, Midway Plaisance — Exhibition of wild 
animals, etc. Admission to building 25 cents. Seats in amphitheatre from 
25 cents to $L 

Tunisian Exhibit and Cafe, French Government Section, Jackson Park 
— Cafe and musical entertainments and exiiibit of Tunisian goods. No 
admission fee. 



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STATUARY OX BRIDGES. 

Mammoth Crystal Cave, Horticultural Building — Reproduction of the 
mammoth crystal cave situated near the city of Deadwood, S. U. No ad- 
mission fee. 

Model Eiffel Tower, Midway Plaisance — Model twenty feet in height. 
Admission 25 cents. 

Vienna M^ennerchor Society — Musical exercise in Festival Hall during 
the summer months of 1893. Prices to be approved by the Bureau of Music. 

Whaling Bark " Progress," South Pond — The old whaling bark " Prog- 
ress." A museum illustrating the whaling industry. Containing marine 
curiosities and relics. Admission 25 cents. 

Electric Scenic Theatre, Midway Plaisance — Showing a landscape or 
other scenes under the changing light as the day passes. The effect being 
produced by a multitude of various colored electric lights. Admission 
25 cents. 

East India wares, IMidway Plaisance — Exhibition and sale of native 
wares. No admission fee. 

Festival Hall, Jackson Park — Musical entertainments by world's famed 
artists and musical societies throughout the Exposition period. Price of 
admission SI. 

Captive balloon, Midway Plaisance — Balloon ascensions ; elevation 
1,500 feet, two trips an hour. Admission to enclosure 25 cents; trip in 
balloon $2. Each passenger making ascension is entitled to photograph. 

Barre Sliding Railway, Midway Plaisance — 10 cents a ride. 

Constantinople Street Scenes, Midway Plaisance— Sedan chairs. Rent, 
with two native carriers, 75 cents an hour, 40 cents for half hour, 25 cents 
for quarter of an hour. 

Cairo Street Scenes, Midway Plaisance — Donkey and camel rides; 50 
cents an hour for donkeys, 25 cents for ride througJi street on camel. 



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World's Fair Steamship Company — Transportation of passengers to 
and from Jackson Park; round trip 25 cents. 

Electric Intramural Railway — Elevated railway about Jackson Park, 10 
cents for round trip or part thereof. 

Steam Launches — Through lagoons and basins; round trip 25 cents. 

Electric Launches — Through lagoons and basins; round trip 25 cents. 

Wheel Chairs — Roller chairs about grounds and buildings; 75 cents an 
hour with attendant, 40 cents an hour without attendant. 

Venetian Gondolas and Barges — About lagoons and basins; with 
gondoliers, 50 cents per round trip. 

Elevators in Transportation Building— Ten cents a ride. 

Elevator to the roof of the Manufactures Building — Fifty cents a trip. 

Ferris Revolving Wheel, Midway Plaisance — The wheel 250 feet in 
diameter and 137 feet in height; 50 cents for ride of two round trips. 

Movable Sidewalk, Long Pier, Jackson Park — Electrically propelled 
sidewalk; 5 cents a ride from shore to end of sidewalk, or vice versa. 

Algerian and Tunisian Village, Midway Plaisance — Streets of Tunis 
and Algiers. Tunisian cafe, bazaars and concert hall, admission free. 
Kabyle tents and families, admission free; Algerian tents with native 
workmen, admission free; Algerian Theater, representing dances and 
songs of Kabyle, Tunis and Algiers, admission 25 and 50 cents. 

French Cider Press, Midway Plaisance — Manufacture and sale of 
French cider. No admission fee. 

Ice Railway, Midway Plaisance — Toboggan slide. Single ride 10 cents. 

Original Vienna Model Bakery, Midway Plaisance— Cafe and concerts 
by Hungarian band. No admission fee. 

Old Vienna Streets, Midway Plaisance — Concerts, bazaars, etc. Ad- 
mission 25 cents. 

Egyptian Temple, Midway Plaisance — Representation of ancient 
temple, mummies, etc. Admission fee 25 cents. 

Dahomey Village, Midway Plaisance — Amazon warriors and other na- 
tives of Dahomey, west coast of Africa. Natives in war dances and resid- 
ing in their huts as they do in their own land. Admission fee 25 cents. 

Lapland Village, Midway Plaisance — Men, women and children from 
Lapland, with dogs, reindeer, etc.; admistton 25 cents. 

American Indians, Midway Plaisance — War dances, etc.; admission 
25 cents. 

Hungarian Cafe and Concert Hall, Midway Plaisance — No admission fee. 

Brazilian Concert Hall, Midway Plaisance — Performances by native 
actors; admission 25 cents. 

Ostrich Farm, Midway Plaisance — Ostriches and ostrich eggs; admis- 
sion 10 cents. 

Libbey Glass Works, Midway Plaisance — Manufacture and sale of 
glass goods. Admission 10 cents. 

Old Log Cabin, 1776, Midway Plaisance— Admission to cabin 10 cents. 



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Boats. — The interior waterways of the ground are equipped with 
speedy small boats for pleasure and transportation purposes. The boats 
are driven by steam and electric power. Every principal building on the 
grounds can be reached by water, and there is an ornamental landing for 
each. There are three classes of boats — first, the "omnibus," carrying from 
thirty to forty passengers, which makes the round trip of the waterways, 
stopping at each landing; second, the "express," which makes round trips 




VENETIAN GONDOLAS ON LAGOON. 

of the waterways without stopping; third, the "cab," which may be hailed 
at any point, like the hansom cab on the street, and employed by the trip 
or by the hour. 

Board Lady Managers. — This board was created by Section 6 of the 
Act of Congress, approved April 25, 1890. Its officers are a president, who 
has general supervision over the board; eight vice-presidents and a vice- 
president* at large, one of whom presides in the absence of the president in 
the order in which they are enumerated (no other salary than their per 



28 CONKEY'S COMPLETE GUIDE 

diem); a secretary who is required to keep the records and minutes; a 
superintendent of the Industrial Department, who prepares general statis- 
tics of industrial pursuits engaged in by women; a superintendent of State 
Work, who has charge of exhibits by women from the various States and 
Territories; a chairman of the Committee on Awards, and a director of the 
Woman's Building, who has supervision over the building and its 
decoration. 

Board of Reference and Control. — This Board consists of the President 
of the Commission, the Vice-Chairman of th j Executive Committee, and 
six members of the Commission, appointed by the President upon which 
Board are conferred all the powers and duties of the Commission, when 
the Commission or its Executive Committee shall not be in session, except 
in cases in which the Act of Congress requires the action of the Commis- 
sion, or a majority of the Commissioners. This Board, with a like Committee 
of the Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, appointed by the 
President thereof, constitutes a Committee of Conference to which is re- 
ferred all matters of difference, and the joint action of the two Boards, con- 
stituting the Joint Committee on such matters of difference, is conclusive. 
The Board is required to keep accurate records of all its proceedings, and 
make full reports of the same to the Commission at each session thereof, 
within the first two days of the session. 

Bonded Warehouse. — Near the Sixty-seventh street entrance where 
foreign goods for exhibit are unloaded. 

Bridges. — There are sixteen bridges over the lagoons and canal, with 
iron trusses, each ornamented architecturally to a high degree. 

Building Material. — In the erection of the Exposition buildings, it is 
estimated 75,000,000 feet of lumber are required. This represents 5,000 
acres of standing trees. The structural iron and steel required is 20,000 
tons. 

Bureau of Admissions and Collections. — The Bureau of Admissions 
and Collections was created by a rule adopted by the Board of Directors 
of the World's Columbian Exposition and approved by the World's 
Columbian Commission in November, 1892. It consists of the president, 
treasurer and auditor and the. chairmen of the Committees on Ways and 
Means and Finance of the World's Columbian Exposition. The chairman 
of the Committee on Ways and Means is also the chairman of the bureau. 

The work of the bureau is divided into a Department of Admissions, 
which has charge of the gates, the selling of tickets of admission, the 
collection of the same and rendering of gate receipts into the treasury; 
and a Department of Collections, which has charge of the auditing of all 
concessions within the Exposition grounds and the settlement between con- 
cessionaires and the Exposition for the percentages due the latter. The 
Department of Collections also has charge of the collection of all sums due 
the Exposition from exhibitors, State World's Fair Boards and others. 



WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 



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V-a-scM-it^ 



OFFICKKS OV r.OAIID OF LADV MANACiERP, 



1. Mns. POTTKIl Pai.mkr, 

2. Mrs. Ralph Trattman of New York, 3. MRS. Eowix C. BlRLEioii of Maine, 

First Vice-President. Sevoml Vice-President. 

5. MIS.S KATHKrMNK L. Minor of Louisiana, 
Fourth Vice-President. 

6. Mrs. BKRIAH VVlLKIXSof District of Columliia, 4. Mu.S CllARLKS PllICK of North Carolina, 

Fiftli Vice-President. Ttiird Vice-Prexidenl. 

8. Mr.«. RrssEL B. Harrison of Montana, 
Vice-Preaideut-at-Lnrge. 

7. MUiV. Flora Beall Ginty of Wisconsin, ». MR--*. Vhkmnia C. MEREnirii of Indiana, 

Seventli Vice-President. Vice-Choir man Executive Com. 

11. Mrs. Helen M. Barker of South Dakota, 10. MRS. Susan Gale C(k)IvE of Tennessee, 

Supt. Industrial Department. Secretary. 



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HORACE TUCKER. 



The Department of Admissions is under the charge of Mr. Horace 
Tucker, as superintendent, who appoints all ticket sellers and collectors of 

tickets at the entrances to the Exposition and 
at offices located in the city along the lines of 
railroads and upon the pier at Van Buren street 
and at the Exposition grounds. He has also 
the control and issuance of complimentary 
cards of admission, photographic pass books, 
passes, etc., and maintains a complete record 
of all admissions. The service in the Depart- 
ment of Admissions requires in all about 400 
men. The ticket sellers and collectors are so 
organized that their reliefs daily are made, 
making the service average to each man eight hours per day. The office of 
the superintendent is located in the grounds of the Exposition, near the 
Sixty-second street entrance. In addition to the ticket sellers and collect- 
ors an organized force has been provided to promptly furnish to the heads 
of departments the requisite information daily required in the shape of 
reports. All ticket sellers and collectors are under bond to the department, 
as well as to the treasurer, for all tickets and money received. 

The Department of Collections has charge of the collection of all 
moneys which may become due the World's Columbian Exposition on 
account of privileges or concessions; also the 
collection of all moneys due from exhibitors and 
State World's Fair Boards. This department 
is under the charge of Mr. Paul Blackmar, as 
superintendent. Contracts for privileges or 
concessions upon the Exposition grounds 
number considerably over 100, and include the 
special attractions located upon Midway Plais- 
ance, such as the German Village, the Irish 
Villages, the Ferris Wheel, the Libbey Glass 
Company, the Cycloramas, etc.; also the res- 
taurants located on various parts of the grounds; the Elevated Intramural 
Electric Railway; steam and electric launches and gondolas upon the lagoons 
and adjacent waters of the lake; wheel chairs and booths; for the sale of 
articles of consumption and interesting curiosities, mementoes and sou- 
venirs. 

Bur&au of Public Comfort. — This bureau was established by the Direc- 
tors of the Exposition for the purpose of contributing, as far as possible, to 
the convenience and comfort of visitors. In several of the large buildings 
located in different parts of the grounds are spacious reception and waiting 
rooms, parlors for ladies and children — all comfortably furnished, for the 
enjoyment of visitors. The bureau has provided lavatories and retiring 
rooms, polite attendants and all necessary means for constituting an attract- 
ive headquarters for the people — desirable resorts and resting places free 




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of charge to visitors. Maintained in connection with these rooms, for the 
use of visitors, at moderate charges, are parcel rooms for checking and care 
of coats, wraps, bundles, handbags, etc.; barber shops and boot-blacking; a 
good service of lunch connters and lunch tables; also stands for the sale of 
newspapers, reading matter, stationery, postage stamps, toilet articles 
and other items of common every-day need. Attendants are stationed in 
each reception room, to reply, as far as possible, to all inquiries for general 
or local information. Registers for visitors are maintained, in which those 
desiring may enter their names, home and temporary address without 
charge. The provision for convenience of visitors also embrace telegraph 




PUBLIC COMFORT BUILDING, NEAR WOMAN'S BUILDING. 

office, telephone office, messenger service, stenographers and typewriters. 
The central idea has been to furnish suitable free accommodations within 
the Exposition grounds, where all are welcome to rest from the fatigues of 
sight-seeing, and to cater to the personal needs of visitors, at moderate cost. 

Cafe de Marine. — West of the Japanese Tea House, and on the edge of 
the North Pond. It is three stories high, its dimensions being 100x130 feet. 

Casino. — This is one of the most popular structures on the grounds, 

and it is generally admired for its beauty of architecture. It is located at 

the south end of the peristyle, and its dimensions are the same as the 

Music Hall at the north end, 140x260 feet. It contains restaurants and 

resting room as a part of the Bureau of Public Comfort, and is a favorite 

resort for visitors. 
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Charter.— In August, 1889, application for a charter as a corporation 
was sent to the capital of the State. This application stated that the name 
of the proposed corporation was "The World's Exposition of 1892," and its 
object "the holding of an International Exposition, or World's Fair, in the 
city of Chicago and State of Illinois, to commemorate on its four hundredth 
anniversary the discovery of America." The capital stock was $5,000,000, 
as a guarantee fund, the amount of each share 810, and the number of 
shares 500,000, the location of the principal office at Chicago, Cook county, 




THE CASINO. 



Illinois, and the duration of the corporation ninety-nine years. This appli- 
cation was signed by De Witt C. Cregier, Ferdinand W. Peck, George 
Schneider, Anthony F. Seeberger William C. Seipp John R. Walsh and 
E. Nelson Blake. A license was granted them to open subscription books, 
which was dated August 14, 1889. This stock was issued at SIO per share, 
2 per cent, to pe paid on delivery of the certificates, 18 per cent, as soon as 
the Fair was secured to the city, and the balance of the 80 per cent, to be 
collected in four equal parts, each payable in six months. 



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Checking Packages. — In every public building on the grounds there is 
abundant convenience for checking packages. The Manufactures Building 
has eight check-rooms; the Fine Arts Building, twelve; the Electrical 
Building, four; the Agricultural Building, two; the Fisheries Building 
two, and other Exposition buildings from one to four in proportion 
to their various needs. The terminal railroad station has four check- 
rooms, the Casino is amply supplied, and all State buildings are 
furnished as their officers may require. These parcel checking-rooms 
vary in size from 6x8 feet to 5x15. All check-rooms have a series 
of pigeonholes on the walls, each compartment being eighteen inches 
in each of its three dimensions. The checks are manila tags, machine 
numbered, and divided into three parts, after the manner of the usual 
package checks in railroad depots. A charge of 10 cents is made for each 
day or fraction of a day upon delivery of the parcel. On the grounds there 
are about 20,000 compartments for the reception and care of packages and 
more than 100 attendants. Besides this checking system a plan of trans- 
ferring baggage has been instituted whereby a visitor may leave a bundle, 
for example, in the check-room of the Forestry Building and find it after- 
ward at the railway station upon presentation of one of the colored transfer 
checks. Facilities are also provided for delivering parcels from any shop 
or booth on the grounds at any one of the regular checking stations. For 
this purpose another different style of check is provided. These deliveries 
are made either specially on short notice or as routine work, the charges 
regulated accordingly. 

Children's Building. — Under the immediate auspices of the Board of 
Lady Managers is the Children's Building. This is primarily an educa- 
tional exhibit. A model creche is shown, demonstrating in a large, light 
and airy room the most healthful, comfortable and rational system of 
dressing and caring for young children. Short lectures are given upon their 
food, clothing, and sleeping arrangements, and in connection with the 
creche is an exhibition of infants' clothing of all nations and times, their 
cradles and other furniture. As the child grows and its mental faculties 
develop, the kindergarten succeeds the creche. This department of child- 
life is demonstrated in the most complete manner by the International 
Kindergarten Association. The kindergarten under this management is 
fitted up in the most attractive manner. All the latest apparatus necessary 
to the best exposition of the work is provided. Closely allied to the kinder- 
garten is the kitchengarden, where classes of little folks are taught the 
useful arts of homekeeping. In so interesting and delightful a manner are 
sweeping, dusting, bedmaking and cooking taught, that what might other- 
wise be an irksome task to children becomes a most delightful recreation. 
For older children is a slojd, where wood-carving is exhibited. Physical 
development is illustrated by the North American Turner-Bund. Here 
many a lad is inspired to seek after that physical perfection that was the 
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of children's literature has been provided. In it are found the books of all 
lands, and in all languages, their newspapers, periodicals, etc. Pennsylva- 
nia has equipped a department in the Children's Building showing the 
wonderful progress that has been made in teaching young deaf mutes to 
speak. Miss Mary Garrett, secretary of the Home for Teaching Deaf 
Mutes to speak, is in charge of this department. Daily demonstrations 
are given. A department of Public Comfort in connection with the 
Children '-S Building, is conducted especially for the benefit of children. 




CHUiDEEN'S BUIUDLNG. 

Infants and small children are received and placed in the care of compe- 
tent nurses, who provide for all their wants while their mothers are visiting 
the various departments of the Exposition. For the amusement of visiting 
children there is a large playground on the roof; this is inclosed with a 
strong wire netting, so that the children will be perfectly safe. The 
playground is very attractive, ornamented with vines and flowers. Within 
the inclosure butterflies and birds flit about unconfined. Here, under 
cover, are exhibited toys of all nations, from the rude playthings of Esqui- 



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mau children to the wonderful toys which at once instruct and amuse. 
These toys are used to entertain the children. The building has an assem- 
bly room, containing rows of little chairs, and a platform from which 
stereoptican lectures are give to the older boys and girls, about foreign 
countries, their languages, manners, and customs, and important facts con- 
nected with their history. 

Climate. — The Chicago summers are known far and wide as successf 
rivals of those of many of the pretentious resorts in mountain and at sea- 
side. The temperature in summer is invariably cool, and a conspicuous 
blessing are the delightfully cool nights. If the weather is ever unpleas- 
antly warm it lasts at most only a few hours, a cool breeze from the lake in- 
variably dissipating it. The certainty that hot weather does not prevail for 
any length of time is a most advantageous feature. 

Cliff Dwellers. — The adobe home of the Cliff Dwellers is near the 
Anthropological Building. The home is a reproduction of Battle Rock 
Mountain in the Mac Eimo Valley of Colorado. It is built of stone, iron, 
staff and wood, but is artistically arranged to imitate nature, and is covered 
with vines and moss. The entrance is through a cave in the side of the 
mountain. The interior contains cactus and other vegetation. Caverns 
open from the sides of the canon, and in them may be seen a mummy, uten- 
sils, etc., as found on the original site. Various implements of the dwellers 
are scattered arounr' 

Cold Storage Building. — This pavilion is 150x255 feet. It is Roman- 
esque in style, and five stories high. At each corner there is an imposing 
tower, from which an extensive view of the grounds may be had. The central 
tower is a "smoke stack," and probably the most artistic one ever seen. 
It is 191 feet in height and elaborately decorated. In this building the 
most interesting features are the three 120-ton "Hercules" Ice Making Ma- 
chines, and the visitors can see there how artificial ice is made. 

Columbian Guard. — A military organization, under the control and 
direction of the Exposition company, and having no connection with the 

city police department. The guard is under 

command of Col. Edmund Rice, U. S. Army, 

whose title in the guard is commandant. The 

guards do police and fire-patrol duty inside the 

grounds and at the gates. It numbers 2,000 

men. The secret service part of the command 

is under the charge of John Bonfield. Colonel 

Rice started out with the idea of making the 

Columbian Guard a model organization of 

selected men, physically, mentally and morally 

COL,. EDMUND KicL. qualified for the work required of them. The 

following officers of the regular army were detailed to assist Colonel Rice in 

his duties, and were assigned as follows: Captain Fred A. Smith, Twelfth 

United States Infantry, as adjutant of the guard and commanding Com- 




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pany E and patrol system; First Lieutenant C. B. Hoppin, Second United 
States Cavalry, as quartermaster, and First Lieutenant R. J. C. Irvine, 
Eleventh United States Infantry, commanding Company B. Each mem- 
ber of the guard performs his eight hours of duty during the twenty-four. 
The two reliefs which do the work during the day have four hours on, then 
four hours off. The night relief has a continuous tour of eight hours. It 
is all so arranged that no two companies or reliefs are changing at the 
same hour, day or night. The uniform consists of a light blue cloth sack 
coat, ornamented with five rows of black braid across the front, each row 
terminating in a clover-leaf knot; black braid on the cuffs of the sleeves, 
with three small brass buttons on each cuff and five large ones down the 
front of the coat. The trousers are of a lighter blue than the coat and 
trimmed with two rows of flat black braid down each outside seam with a 
narrow red stripe between. The fatigue cap is made high for the addition 
of a black pompon on occasions of ceremony, which together with the 
black braid shoulder knots and aiguilettes with belt and short sword, con- 
stitutes the full dress. The ornaments are a blazing sun, from the center 
of which an eagle's head appears, worn on the left breast; a whistle for the 
purposes of signal and alarm; on the right breast a cross-bow after the 
pattern of 1492, on which is the guard's number, and on the cap a crossed 
gun and sword, in the center of which is a miniature morion, or leather hel- 
met, such as was in vogue during the time of Columbus. 

Compared with Paris and Philadelphia Expositions. — That the 
World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 is by far the greatest 
Exposition ever held is shown by the following comparison: 



Area of grounds in acres 

Area occupied by buildings in acres. _ . 

Number of main buildings. 

Cost of buildings 

Cost per square foot 

Area covered by buildings, square feet 
Exhibit space (approximate) 



Paris. 



Philadelphia. 



238 
75/2 
5 
,903,760.08 
S1.74 



284.49 

7U.08 

23 

189,828.32 

$216 

3,052,084 

4,323,330 



Chicago. 



633 
1421/2 

28 

$7,286,032.46 

$1.39 

6,487,390 

9,138,888 



Commissioners From the States and Territories. — In nearly all cases 
the State Boards of Commissioners were appointed by the governors in 
conformity with acts of the Legislatures of the respective States. These 
boards assumed such executive powers and functions as were necessary to 
secure complete and creditable displays of the various interests of their 
respective States, by having personal charge of the solicitation, collection, 
transportation, arrangement and exhibition of the objects sent by associa- 
tions and individual citizens of the States, such as the natural and industrial 
products, objects illustrating the history, progress and moral and material 
welfare and future development. These boards generally are required to 
make reports of their proceedings and expenditures from time to lime to 



WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 37 

their governors. The commissioners from the Territoriec are in all cases 
appointed by the governors, respectively, and their duties and powers are 
the same as those from the States. [For full particulars relating to Com- 
missioners, see Official Directory.] 

Concerts. — From two band stands, north and south of the MacMonnies 
Fountain, respectively, open air concerts are given morning, evening and 
at night, by such popular musical organizations as Sousa's Military band, 
Leisegang's Chicago band, Michael Brand's Cincinnati band, and others, 
from time to time. Concerts are also given occasionally in the Iowa State 
building by the Iowa State band, and from the court of honor on the wooded 
island by different bands. 

Concessions. — The general rules governing lessees cf concessions are 
as follows: 

1. Lessees and such employes or assistants as may be necessary 
for the proper conduct of the business will have full access to the Exposi- 
tion grounds, but they will be subject at all times to the General Rules and 
Regulations of the Exposition, and shall enter at such gates and at such 
hours as may be designated by the Exposition management. 

2. No business under any of the concessions shall be conducted in 
other than a first-class, orderly manner. No gambling or games of chance 
will be allowed anywhere within the Exposition grounds. 

3. All buildings, stands or booths leased or erected for concessions 
shall be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of the Director- 
General, and such agents as may be designated by the Exposition manage- 
ment. 

4. No transferring or sub-letting of any interest in the concessions ' 
granted w^ill be allowed without the written consent of the Exposition 
management. 

5. No employe or assistant of lessees of concessions shall enter upon 
his duties until his name and address have been registered in the office of 
the Committee of Ways and Means, who will designate an official number 
which shall attach to said employe or assistant, and such number must be 
worn conspicuously by said employe or assistant when on duty, and used as 
the rules may designate. 

6. All goods sold must be what they are represented, and no decep- 
tion will be allowed. 

7. Wagon gates w\\\ be open at 5 a. m. and closed at 8:30 a. m., for the 
purpose of admitting supplies to all those having concessions; all supplies 
must be brought in between those hours. Only such articles as are cov- 
ered by the concessions will be admitted without a special permit. 

8. All stands, counters and fittings, together with all decoration, to be 
erected at the expense of the lessee; plans of the above to be subject to 
the approval of the Director-General. 

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10. Concessions will be limited to a given number of the same in each 
class or branch concerning which concessions are granted. 

11. Lessees will be required to keep their premises clean and in com- 
plete order at all times, and shall not permit any violence, coarse or inso- 
lent language, or unnecessary noise about their premises. Any employes 
or assistants wearing the number assigned by the Exposition management, 
appearing on the grounds at any time intoxicated, making unnecessary 
noise, or using coarse or insolent language, will be deprived of their num- 
ber and be immediately and parmanently expelled from the grounds. 

12. Persons procuring concessions to sell foreign goods will be subject 
to the above rules, in addition to the regulations issued by the Secretary of 
the Treasury of the United States for the protection and collection of the 
revenue. 

13. Any person who attempts to sell, or expose for sale, in the Exposi- 
tion grounds, or in any of the buildings erected thereon, any article, what- 
ever, without having first obtained a concession for such purpose, will be 
forthwith ejected from the Exposition grounds, and prosecuted to the full 
extent of the law. 

14. Any violation on the part of lessees of any of the rules governing 
the Exposition or concessions, will make void their contract at the option 
of the Exposition managers. 

15. All lessees, assistants and their employes must leave the grounds 
within two hours after the close of the Exposition. 

16. Persons procuring concessions will be required to furnish the 
Exposition management with a good and sufficient bond for the faithful 

.performance of their contract. 

17. The Exposition management reserves the right to amend or add to 
these rules whenever it may be deemed necessary for the interest of the 
Exposition and the public good. 

Council of Administration. — The Council of Administration is the cen- 
ter of authority for the administration of the Exposition. This body has 
absolute and final jurisdiction and control over all matters of general ad- 
ministration of the Exposition and the employment of all agencies neces- 
sary thereto, except that it can not expend the moneys of the World's 
Columbian Exposition in other than such amounts as are specifically ap- 
propriated for the use of the council by the Board of Directors or its Execu- 
tive Committee; nor can it expend any moneys appropriated by Congress 
on account of the World's Columbian Commission, unless expressly author- 
ized to do so by the Commission or its Board of Control. The Council is 
composed of two members of the Board of Directors of the World's Colum- 
bian Exposition, appointed by said Board, and two members of the Board 
of Control of the World's Columbian Commission, chosen by that body. 
The Council of Administration was created by an agreement drawn up by 
the joint-board of Reference and Control of the Commission and Exposi- 
tion, August 8, 1892, in a conference called for the purpose of providing for 



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COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION. 
1. A. W. Sawyer, Sec. 2. Chas. H. Schwab. 

3. H. N. HiGlNBOTHAM. 

4. Geo. V. Massey. 5. J. W. St. Clair. 



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the general administration of the Exposition and the installation of exhibits. 
By the terms of this agreement the Director-General, who is an officer of 
the World's Columbian Commission, and the Director of Works, who is an 
officer of the World's Columbian Exposition, together with the entire forces 
under their control, were placed under and subject to the control and direc- 
tion of the council. The members of the council are H. N. Higinbotham, 
Chairman, and Charles H. Schw^ab for the World's Columbian Exposition, 




CONVENT OF LA RABID A. 

and George V. Massey and J. W. St. Clair for the World's Columbian 
Commission. 

By means of the agreement creating the Council of Administration the 
powers and duties conferred by law upon the two great organizations con- 
nected with the Exposition enterprise were concentrated in this body, and 
it has control upon the one hand of the great departments organized under 
the Director-General for dealing with exhibitors and the representatives of 
foreign nations, and on the other hand of the forces organized under the 



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Director of Works for the physical operation of the Exposition. The coun- 
cil transacts its business mainly through these two officers. 

Convent of La Rabida. — An exact reproduction of the Convent of La 
Rabida in Spain, where Columbus found shelter, in time of trouble, for him- 
self and boy, and where, it is said, he developed his theory of an undiscov- 
ered continent in the West, is located in the southern part of the grounds. 
The building is considered more closely connected with Columbus and his 
great work than any other. It cost $50,000. 

Daily Columbian. — This is a daily newspaper made up of the first 
pages of Tribiuie, Herald, Record, Ti?nes and Iiiter-Oceaii, and three other 
.pages of matter collected, edited, set up and printed on the grounds. It 
serves as an exhibit of how a morning newspaper is produced. 

Davy Crockett Cabin. — At the south end of the Wooded Island. An 
exact reproduction of the famous backwoodsman's home. 

Dedication. — October 21, 22 and 23, 1892, the Exposition buildings were 
dedicated amid much splendor and pomp. The tide of inflowing humanity 
began early in the week; all disengaged rooms at hotels were quickly filled; 
Exposition headquarters suddenly bristled with special sessions. Bales of 
bunting were unrolled and thefa9adesof the business streets were enlivened 
with the colors of the United States and Spain, lavishly entwined upon a 
rich background of terra cotta and the inverted Y of white. 

Director-General. — The Director-General exercises such supervision, 

direction and control of the operation of the 
"World's Columbian Exposition," within the 
domain of the powers possessed by the Com- 
mission, as will tend to promote the efficiency 
of every agency employed. He is authorized 
to assume and exercise all such executive 
owers and functions as shall be necessary to 
secure promptness, efficiency, and good faith 
in every department of the work within the 
urview of the authority of the Commission. 
GEORGE K. DAVIS, Director of Works. — ^Mr. D. H. Burnham, 

Director of Works, has had from the beginning of the work, the genera 
charge of the construction of buildings and 
supervision of the business thereof, the prepar- 
ation of the grounds and engineering incident 
to a proper prosecution of the entire work. He 
has had the supervision of the buildings erected 
by outside parties and the maintenance of all 
buildings belonging to the Exposition. He has 
been required to examine all bids and proposi- 
tions for work under his control, and to organize 
bureaus of architecture, engineering, landscape 
gardening, sanitation; to hire and dismiss all d. u. buri^ham. 





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employes in his department, and fix, subject to approval, the compensation 
for their services. He has the employment (subject to the approval or 
confirmation of the Council of Administration) and general charge of all 
the working forces within the grounds of the Exposition necessary to tae 
maintenance of order, the protection of property from fire or other destruc- 
tive elements, to supply heat, power, light, water and sewerage, the care of 
the grounds and all service necessary to the practical administration of 
the Exposition, inside the grounds. [For details relating to this depart- 
ment, see Official Directory.] 

Drinking Water. — An abundance of drinking water, the best supplied 
to any great city in the world, is provided free to all. The water is either 
filtered or sterilized. The process of sterilization is accomplished by boil- 
ing the water. Months ago the Exposition company made a contract for 
something less than 3,000 drinking fountains. The fountains have each 
four faucets, so that 12,000 people can drink at the same time. 

Ducker Hospital. — Near the Sixtieth street entrance, right hand side. 

Electricity. — Seventeen thousand horse-power for electric lighting is 
provided for the Exposition Company. This is three times the electric 
lighting power in use in Chicago and ten times that provided for the Paris 
Exhibition of 1889. There is 9,000 horse-power for incandescent lights* 
5,000 for arc lights, and 3,000 for machinery power. This supplies 93,000 
incandescent lights and 5,000 arc lights. The buildings provided with elec- 
tric power are: Mines, Electricity, Agriculture, Transportation and Manu- 
factures. The electric plant cost $1,000,000. The scheme for lighting the 
main basin on fete nights during the Exposition includes thousands of 
incandescent lights of different colors. One row extends just above the 
water's edge all around the basin, and another row reflects deeper into the 
water from a few feet higher up. Still higher on the loggias of all the 
buildings that surround the basin are other rows of lights with here and 
there a handsome design. Rows of lights also reach around the colonnade 
s::ory of the Administration Building, while the lower part of the building is 
lighted from the dome and sides. At the base of each tier of the MacMon- 
nies fountain is another row of lights, over which the water falls from the 
basin above. There are also various search-lights to help out the effect. 
One of these is placed in the mezzanine floor of the Administration Build- 
ing to play on the MacMonnies fountain. Another on the Electricity 
Building throws its light on the Statue of the Republic at the east end of 
the basin, and still others are employed to help out at other places. The 
effect of all these many-hued lights reflecting in the water is dazzling and 
beautiful. 

Emergency Hospital. — The Emergency Hospital is in the south por- 
tion of the Service Building, and comprises one-fourth of the building. The 
hospital contains, on the first floor, the following: Two wards, of ten beds 
each, for men; one ward of ten and another of three beds for women; medi- 
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of nurses; diet kitchen; drug room; linen and clothes closets; two exam- 
ining and operating rooms and closets; reception room and two waiting 
rooms — one for men and one for women. On the second floor are the 
dormitories for nurses and physicians. No patient will be permitted to 
remain in this hospital over night. It is essentially an Emergency Hos- 
pital. On account of the extent of the grounds, it was necessary to establish 
two sub-stations, or sub-hospitals, each of three or four beds for males and 
the same number for females. One of these is located at the east end of 




ENTRANCE TO BASIN. 



Midway Plaisance, and another east of Guard Station No. 7, between 
Machinery Hall and the Terminal railway station. There are four ambu- 
lances. Two are stationed near the Emergency Hospital and one contig- 
uous to each of the sub-stations. In addition, fifty invalid chairs are used 
for the transportation of the sick to boat, sub-station or hospital. A trained 
ambulance corps and a physician is detailed for each ambulance. An 
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It performs the function of an ambulance, as well as that of a sub-station, 
or sub-hospital. In the Emergency Hospital there are two resident physi- 
cians, a corps of attending physicians, hospital steward, orderlies for 
stretcher work, and druggists. There are also a superintendent of nurses, 
a surgical nurse, and a corps of trained nurses in addition, for the hospital. 
There are trained nurses and attending physicians at the sub-stations, and 
also upon the electric launch. One hundred and fifty stretchers are appor- 
tioned to the various buildings, as follows: Manufactures Building, 32; 
Woman's Building, 10; Horticultural Building, 9; Fisheries Building, 6; Art 
Gallery, 20; Agricultural Building, 24; Forestry Building, 2; Dairy Build- 
ing, 1; Stock Pavilion. 2; Mining Building, 8; Electricity Building, 8; 
Transportation Exhibits Building, 17; Bonded Warehouses, 2; Packing 
Case Buildings, 2; Saw Mill, 2; Music Hall, 4; Recital Hall, 1. The steam 
launch takes patients from any landing. The chief landing for this launch 
is at the north end of the Transportation Exhibits Building, close to the 
Emergency Hospital, to which patients will be conveyed by invalid chairs, 
or by hand litters, when necessary. Upon the flag of this department is 
seen, in the center, the Geneva cross and the v/ords "Medical Bureau." It 
marks sub-stations, Emergency Hospital, and indicates the hospital or 
ambulance boat. The badge worn by the physicians consists of the 
Geneva cross, containing in its center a disc, in which is a countersunk panel 
showing in raised design the lettering '"'World's Columbian Exposition, 
Medical Bureau," and in the center is the symbol of Hygeia. Interwoven 
and forming a wreath inside the points of the cross are, in raised relief, 
poppy heads. The central circular portion of the badge and poppies are 
silvered. The badge of the medical director has a gold center, the circum- 
ference of which is of blue enamel, which, with the silvered poppies and the 
sealing-wax red of the Geneva cross, make the national colors, red, white 
and blue. The badge is also upon the sides of the ambulances and the 
boat. The nurse's badge is the same as that of the attending physicians, 
minus the poppy heads. All other attaches of the Medical Bureau wear 
the central circular portion of the badge, silvered, without cross and without 
poppies. All of the physicians are educated andexperienced men, selected 
on account of their fitness for the position which they occupy. The function 
of the bureau is to minister to the sick and the injured upon the grounds; 
to look after sanitary matters, etc. This hospital is in no sense an exhibit, 
but its corps of workers are actively engaged in caring for those who 
require its services. The physicians are clothed in navy blue uniforms; 
all others in gray, trimmed with green. The nurses wear the uniform 
of their schools, respectively. A.t the close of the gates, or before, patients 
who are dangerously hurt or seriously ill will be removed to their 
residences, boarding houses, to a hospital, or referred-to outside physicians. 
Sub-stations, hospital and launch have telephone connections. The service 
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Festival (Choral) Hall. — This building stands upon the shors of the 
lagoon at a point where the two great promenades meet. Its location 
enables it to be seen from distant parts of the grounds across the lagoon with 
its beautiful wooded island and green shores. To one side stands Horticult- 
ural Hall, while Transportation Hall stands on the other. The style of the 
building, which is Doric, makes it simple and severe in treatment; its form, 
which resembles an amphitheater surmounted by a dome, gives the build- 
ing, both externally and internally, a rounded form, from which project on 
the four side porticoes, the one facing the lagoon being the principal 
entrance, and enriched by fluted Doric columns six feet and a half in diam- 
eter. From the portico leads a flight of spacious steps, at the foot of which 
stand two statues, being reproductions of celebrated marbles of Handel 
and Bach. On either side of the portico are panels in relief work repre- 
senting the progress of music, and in the panels over the doors are relief 
portraits of Gluck, Berlioz, Wagner, Schumann, Schubert, Mozart, Men- 
delssohn, Bach, Handel and Beethoven. The interior has the form of a 
Greek theater, except that the chorus of 2,500 voices occupies the part 
assigned by the Greeks to the stage, and thus it becomes amphitheatrical 
in form. There are no galleries of any kind to obstruct the view or sound. 
The building will seat 6,500 persons. The decoration of the interior is in 
the same order as the exterior in relief work and color. A large foyer 
extends around the building, giving ample room for promenade. 

Fire Department. — During the construction work it consisted of 
eighteen men, three engine houses, three two-horse engines, one one-horse 
engine, one sixty-gallon hand tank (at the Forestry Building), twenty-six 
hose carts, with 13,250 feet of hose, and 470 chemical hand extinguishers. 
The fire pressure is 100 pounds to the square inch, supplied by the engines 
in the temporary power house. In the complete system of fire protection 
there is in each building a water standpipe, extending- from the ground to 
the roof. Attached to the pipe on each floor, gallery and roof is a reel of 
hose which throws water automatically with the unreeling of the hose. Dur- 
ing the Exposition there is a fire patrol on every floor, gallery and roof. 
The city fire department is at the call of the Exposition force. 

"Fire Queen."— Name of a handsome little boat that plies the lagoons 
as a protection against fires. The craft belongs to the Exposition Fire 
Department. It is 16 feet wide, 75 feet long and draws S}4 feet of water. 
The vessel isequipped with fire extinguishing apparatus and has a capacity 
of six ordinary fire-engines. 

Foreign Consuls in Chicago. — Argentine Republic — 193 Van Burenst.; 
consul, P. S. Hudson. Austria-Hungary — 78 Fifth ave.; consul, Henry 
Claussenius. Belgium — 167 Dearborn St.; consul, C. Henrotin. Denmark 
— 209 Fremont St.; consul, Emil Dreier. France — 70 La Salle St.; consul- 
general, Edmond Bruwaert. German Empire — Room 24, Borden Blk.; 
consul, Carl Buenz. Great Britain — Room 4, 72 Dearborn St.; consul, 
Jas. H. Sadler. Italy — 110 La Salle St.; consul, Conte V. Manassero di 



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Costigliole. Mexico— Room 30, 126 Washington St.; consul, Felipe Ber- 
riozabal, Jr. Netherlands — 85 Washington St.; consul, George Birkhoff, Jr. 
Russia— Room 62, 70 La Salle St.; consul, M. H. Thai. Sweden and Nor- 
way—Room 1, 153 Randolph St.; vice-consul, Peter Svanoe. Switzerland— 
167 Washington St.; consul, A. HoUinger. Turkey— 167 Dearborn St.; consul 
C. Henrotin. Uruguay— 193 Van Buren St., Chas. C. Turner. 

Fountains. — The MacMonnies fountain stands at the head of the basin, 
immediately in front of the Administration Building. Its waters are illu- 




STATUARY, MACMONNIES FOUNTAIN 

minated by electricity. There are two electrical fountams fifty feet in 
diameter to the right and left of the MacMonnies fountain, two smaller 
fountains in front of the Fine Arts Building and one in front of the Woman's 
Building. Certainly no more striking, and perhaps no more perfect, a work 
of art can be found among the groups and figures of sculpture which 
adorn the grounds than MacMonnies' fountain. It arrests attention even 
among the wealth of attractive objects which are visible in that portion of 
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the exquisite detail in which the artist has executed a design of bold and 
large conception. Mr. MacMonnies is the sculptor of whose fertility of 
imagination and skill in production this Paean is the creation. The idea 
presented by the work is that of Columbia, the genius and apotheosis of 
modern liberty. The ship of state floats in the center of a circular basin, 
or lake, and is idealized by a triumphal barge. In the prow is a winged 
figure of Victory heralding the advance of Freedom by blast of trumpet, 
and bestowing laurels on her champions with the disengaged hand. The 




maomonnies and electeic fountains. 

barge is attended by eight sea-horses, each bestridden by the animated 
figure of a youth, who urges his steed onward. The rowers are eight female 
figures, representing Music, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Agriculture, 
Science, Industry and Commerce. These stand on platforms which rest 
on shields and moldings of emblematic device; the forward poise of the 
bodies as they lean to the oars, and the tresses and drapery blown to the 
rear, conveying the sense of rapid motion. At the helm is a hoary, omnipo- 



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tent Time. Amidship, on a massive pedestal bearing the arms of the 
republic, is Throned Columbia, calm and erect in conscious strength, but 
pose and features expressing vigilance as becomes one who knows the 
price of liberty. Her feet rest on the globe in token of Freedom's triumph; 
her right hand rests lightly on the back of the chair around which her 
garlanded and happy children kneel; in the left hand she extends aloft the 
torch that lights the world. Victory at the prow; Time at the helm; the 
Genius of Liberty sailing with serene confidence toward the future. Such 
is the story of the sculpture. The proportions of the work are on a grand 
scale. The smallest figure is 12 feet in height. The culmination of brill- 
iant effects are produced when the great electric fountains on either side of 
the MacMonnies memorial are brought into play. They are much larger 
than anything of the kind ever attempted before and were put in at a cost 
of $50,000. The basins in which the apparatus is fixed are 60 feet in diam- 
eter. The floors are pierced for 304 jets altogether, by means of which 
the water is sent to a height of 150 feet. Like the rest of the display the 
prettiest effects are produced by concealed lights, thus doing away with the 
mai;«ng by the glare of the exposed light while adding the charm of mys- 
tery to the source of illumination. The whole apparatus is controlled by 
electric signals from one of the domes of Machinery Hall. From there the 
different lights are turned on and the transition from one form to another 
controlled. A 36-inch main supplies the water. Illumination is by 38 arc 
lights of 100 amperes each, requiring nearly 1,000 horse-power in opera- 
tion. 

Grading and Dredging. — In this preparatory work, about 1,200,000 
cubic yards of earth were handled. The work began in February, 1891, 
and was finished the following July. Cost, $495,000. The ground was origi- 
nally a series of sand ridges, covered with scrub oak trees. 

Grand Central Court. — The center, or axis, of the court is formed by 
the water basin. Its foot is marked by the Peristyle, its head by the Ad- 
ministration Building. It is flanked on the north by the Manufactures, 
Electricity and Mines buildings, and on the south by the Agricultural 
and Machinery buildings. The completed work presents a magnificent 
view by day and a gorgeous spectacle by night. The court at night is elabo- 
rately illuminated with electricity. The architectural outlines of the 
buildings and the shore lines of the basin are delineated in incandescent 
lights. Powerful search lights bathe the marble-like palaces in floods of 
ever-changing light, and the great electric fountain at the head of the 
basin will, at times, spout an iridescent deluge. 

Great White Horse Inn. — West of the Windmill exhibit in the south 
part of grounds. 

Guides for Strangers. — Uniformed guides are scattered over the 
grounds to conduct strangers to points of interest. 

Home of Izaak Walton, — Nimrods will be interested in this structure, 



WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 49 

which is a faithful reproduction. It is situated on the North Pond, between 
the Costa Rica Building and the Fine Arts Gallery. 

Hotels and Boarding Houses. — There is no ground for lumors which 
have been circulated that visitors to the Fair are made the victims of exhor- 
bitant charges. Competition is so extensive and sharp as to prevent it. 
One who climbs to the top of one of the Exposition buildings and surveys 
territory lying to the north, west and south of Jackson park can easily be- 
have this statement. There, and indeed in all parts of the city, the amount 
of building recently completed and now under way is simply astonishing. 
Hundreds of structures to meet World's Fair demands have been erected 
within the past few months. Some of the new hotels are large enough to 
accommodate several thousand guests each, and living accommodations 
for not less than 300,000 strangers have been provided for immediately 
contiguous to the Exposition, to say nothing of the numerous hotels, board- 
ing houses, lodging houses, restaurants and cafes in every part of the city 
and suburbs. 

How to Reach the Grounds. — The Exposition grounds include all of 
Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance, and lie seven miles south of the 
City Hall, or center of the down-town district. 

Visitors can reach the grounds from the city: 

By the Illinois Central railroad, leaving the cars at South Park station, 
Sixtieth street, or Woodlawn Park station. Starting from the pier at the 
foot of Van Buren street special World's Fair trains run through to the Ex- 
position without stopping at way stations, making the trip in fifteen min- 
utes. These trains begin running at.an early hour in the morning and are 
run every five or ten minutes, as occasion may require. Fare each way, 10 
cents. Regular suburban trains run from the foot of Lake street, stopping 
at Van Buren, Congress, Sixteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-seventh, Thirty- 
first, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-ninth, Forty-third, Forty-seventh, Fiftieth, Fifty- 
seventh, Sixtieth and Sixty-third streets, making the time in twenty min- 
utes. Single fare each way, 22 cents. A twenty-five-ride commutation 
ticket from Lake street to Sixty-third street, good for passage on suburban 
trains, can be purchased at any of the company's ticket offices for §2.50. 
The capacity of the Illinois Central is 50,000 passengers per hour. 

By World's Fair Steamship Company, leaving the docks on the Lake 
Front, between Monroe and Van Buren streets, and landing at the Expo- 
sition pier, opposite the foot of Sixty-third street. Round trip fare 25 
cents. Capacity per hour, 15,000 passengers. 

By the Cottage Grove avenue cable cars, which run as far as the South 
Park entrance to the grounds. Fare, 5 cents each way. Capacity per 
hour, 20,000 passengers. 

By the State street cable cars. Fare, 5 cents each way. Capacity per 
hour, 20,000 passengers. 

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grounds at annex of Transportation Exhibits Building, Fare. 5 cents each 
way. Capacity per hour, 20,000 passengers. 

By Baltimore & Ohio and Northern Pacific lines. Capacity 15,000 per 
day, from western suburbs. 

By numerous cabs, hacks and coaches and by water craft from land- 
ings on the river. 

Indian School. — This building is a two-story frame, 124x28 feet, with a 
one story L in the rear, 37x31 feet. These are exterior dimensions. The 
interior dimensions differ but slightly, as it is an ordinary balloon frame. 
The first floor has rooms arranged along one side of an eight-foot hall, 
which are used as two shops, one sewing-room, one sitting-room, two 
reception-rooms, one school-room and two toilet rooms. The L contains a 
dining-room and two pantries. From each end of the hall are stairways 
leading to boys' dormitory, girls' dormitory and seven rooms for employes 
on the second floor. On the walls of the lower hall, which is well lighted, 
are cases containing specimens of Indian school work. A plain roofed 
porch in front of the entrance is forty feet long and ten feet wide. The 
building cost $7,300. 

Insurance. — The amount of fire insurance carried is about $15,000,000, 
The Exposition Company insures only its own property, or property held 
by it in trust. 

Interior Waterways. — Include eight divisions of water within the 
grounds, connecting with one another. The "Basin" extends east from the 
Administration Building to Lake Michigan. It contains 10^ acres. The 
"south canal," 2}4 acres, extends south from the head" of the Basin. The 
"north canal," 3X acres, extends north from the head of the Basin. The 
lagoon around the wooded island contains 28 acres. The lagoon north of 
th2 island, running to Lake Michigan, contains 3i acres. The lagoon south 
of the Agricultural Building contains 8^ acres. The Lake south of the 
Fine Arts Building, 7>^ acres. The pond, in the north part of the grounds, 
contains 1^ acres. Total area of interior waterways, 61 acres. 

Intramural Railroad. — The car house and power house for the railroad 
are east of the dairy barns. The road is elevated, has electric power, and 
will transport visitors about the grounds. 

Invitation to the World.— On December 4, 1890, the President of the 
United States, having been officially notified that all the requirements of 
the Act of Congress had been complied with, issued his proclamation invit- 
ing the world to participate in the Exposition. 

Krupp Gun Exhibit. — One of the most interesting places to visit is the 
Krupp Pavilion in the southeastern part of the Fair Grounds. 

There being not sufficient space in the Machinery Hall or the Trans- 
portation Building, where naturally the Krupp exhibit should have been 
held, on account of the immensity of the exhibition, the German Commis- 
sioner decided to erect a special pavilion, hence the present building, which 
is 200 feet by 85, with an annex on either side of 25 feet; that on the 



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western side of the buildin^^^ being reserved as special offices for the Krupp 
officials. 

One of the great attractions is the Monster Gun, of which so much "has 
been heard, weighing 120 tons, which is a jacketed, built up tube of special 
gun steel. I'he length of the barrel is about 40 feet, with 120 rilied grooves. 

There are four more Guns of large calibre, two for coast defense and 
two for ship service. Two are worked by hydraulic power, which arc ma- 
nceuvered daily at 12 A. M. and 4 v. u. by Krupj) sailors, the remaining two 
being worked by hand. All have been fired a number of times with full 
charges, with the exception of only one, which had to he shipped to the 
United States before an opportunity of testing could be made. 

There is a variety of Quick Firing Guns, Fortress and Siege Guns and 
Mortars, Light Field Guns, Boat and Landing Guns, Mountain and Bush 
Guns, etc. 

The collection of Projectiles is very interesting. Then the large 
variety of Rolled Articles, viz.: Armor Plates, I'lates, Sheets, Forgings, 
Molded Steel Castings, Pressed and Steel Forgings in Dies; also a Forged 
Screw Shaft, Thrust Shaft and Crank Shaft of Open Hearth Steel, and 
especially one plate of Boiler Iron, 61 feet long by 10.82 feet wide and IX 
inches thick, the largest sheet ever rolled, claim the attention of mechanical 
minds. 

The large display of Railroad material should not be omitted, such as 
Locomotive Steel Frames, Cast Steel Locomotive Driving Wheels, Coach 
and other wheels. 

It would be impossible to embrace half this, the largest private exhibit 
ever made, in our limited space. 

Latin American Bureau. — The Latin-American department was organ- 
ized by William E. Curtis, Chief of the Bureau of the American Republics, 
at Washington in the summer of 1890, under the direction of the Committee 
on Foreign Exhibits of the Exposition, of which Mr. William T. Baker was 
chairman. Through the influence of the latter gentleman an appropriation 
of $100,000 was made to promote the interests of the Exposition in the 
countries of Latin-America, although only a portion of that sum was 
expended. At the request of Mr. Baker the President of the United States 
detailed army and navy officers to act as commissioners for the Exposition 
to the Latin-American countries. These commissioners remained in the 
countries to which they were assigned, promoting the interests of the 
Exposition, for a year or more, and then returned to continue their work at 
Chicago. Upon the organization of the Department of Foreign Affairs the 
Latin-American Bureau was placed under its jurisdiction, and Lieut. 
Roger Welles, Jr., was detailed to take charge of the office in Chicago, Mr. 
Curtis continuing the work in Washington. In the spring of 1898 the 
Bureau was removed to Chicago. Mr. Ober, the commissioner to the Wesi 
Indies, in addition to his propaganda in behalf of the Exposition, was 
ins ructed to follow the track of Columbus through tiie West Indies, and 
the collection of historical relics and antiquities in the Convent of La 
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Law as to the Sale of Foreign Goods. — A ccording to a statement of 
the Collector of Customs: "There has been some misunderstanding over the 
rule which forbids the sale of goods which have been accepted as exhibits 
until the close of the Fair. That is neither a customs department rule nor 
a World's Fair rule, but a part of the United States law creating the 
World's Columbian Expr jition. That law states that no merchandise 
accepted as an exhibit shall be sold until after the close of the Fair. The 
World's Fair grounds have been made a bonded warehouse, and the goods 
on exhibition there can not be sold until they have been withdrawn from 
exhibition. Some confusion has arisen, possibly, through the acceptance 
as exhibits of goods designed for sale. For instance, a foreign exhibitor 
would bring several cases of goods to the Fair, intending to exhibit one 
case and sell the others. In the hurry of doing business all the cases have 
been accepted as exhibits in some instances, so the goods intended for sale 
can not be sold until the acceptance of them as exhibits be canceled." 

Leather and Shoe Trades Building. — The Leather and Shoe Trades 
Building is situated on the shore of the lake, south of the great central 




LEATHER AND SHOE TRADES BUILDING. 



basin, southeast of the Agriculture Building, and lies between the Krupp 
Gun Exhibit and the Forestry Building. It is 575-feet long and 150 wide, 
its greatest length being from north to south. In the center of the building 
is a hall 64 feet wide by 480 feet long and 50 feet high; around the hall are 
the galleries, 42 feet wide, 18 feet high on the first floor, and 22 feet high on 
the second floor. The building is well lighted by 520 windows and sky- 
lights, and is built entirely of wood. The exterior covering is of staff and 
plaster. Two large stairways at the end of the hall lead to the galleries or 
second story; two small ones, in the center of the building, lead directly to 
the offices and restaurant. A bridge at the height of the first floor crosses 
the main hall. The building was erected by the subscribers to the stork of 
the World's Columbian Exposition, on account of the Leather and Shoe 
Trades Building. Work upon this building was commenced December 5, 

1892, and completed and ready for the reception of exhibits on Apri^ 1, 

1893. It contains all the domestic exhibits of leather boots and shoes, rub- 
ber boots and shoes, and of the allied trades; also the exhibits of leather, in 
all forms, from all the foreign countries exhibiting at the World's Coluna- 



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bian Exposition. Fine exhibits have been prepared by a large portion oi 
the shoe and leather trade of the United States and the following countries, 
and are shown in the building, erected exclusively for leather, viz: France, 
Germany, Russia, Austria, Spain, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and the 
Argentine Republic. There is also shown in the building leather curios 
from the different foreign countries, such as the native foot-gear, clothing, 
harness, saddles, bags and such articles from museums and private collec- 
tions as have been made famous by age and association. A model shoe fac- 
tory is in operation in this building, and more than one thousand pairs of 
shoes are manufactured daily during the Exposition. The entire second 
floor is devoted to machinery, which includes the model factory, shoe, 
leather and rubber machinery. Mr. Clinton Collier is the superintendent 
of the Leather and Shoe Trades Exhibit, and the display is a part of the 
Department of Manufactures. 

Legal Rates for Cab and Hack Hire. — (Two-horse vehicles.) — Between 
railroad depots, one or two passengers, $1; not exceeding one mile, one or 
two passengers, $1; over one and less than twomiles, one or two passengers, 
$1.50; each additional two passengers of same party, 50 cents; each 
additional mile, exceeding two, 50 cents; each additional passenger of same 
party, 50 cents; rate for one hour, $2; each additional hour, $1; per day,S8; 
children under five years, free; between five and fourteen, half fare. (One- 
horse vehicles.) One mile or fraction thereof, each passenger, 25 cents; 
each additional mile, one or more passengers, 25 cents; for first hour, 75 cents; 
each quarter-hour additional, 20 cents; for services outside city limits and 
in parks, one hour, $1; for each quarter-hour additional, 25 cents. Each 
passenger allowed to carry upon such vehicles, without extra charge, 
ordinary traveling baggage, not exceeding one trunk and twenty-five pounds 
of other baggage. Distance ten squares to the mile in Chicago. 

Living Indians. — Various tribes of American Indians are encamped 
near the Anthropological Hall and this is one of the attractive features of 
the Ethnological Exhibit. The Indians live on the grounds in the same 
manner they do on their respective reservations, showing their canoes, cos- 
tumes, hunting and fishing apparatus, trinkets, etc. 

Loggers' Camp. — Near the sawmill exhibit. A reproduction of the 
camps northwestern lumbermen live m. 

Machine Shop. — A complete outfit of repairing tools and machines is 
furnished free as an exhibit. The machine shop, pump house and power 
house cost $85,000. 

Medals and Diplomas. — The winning exhibitors will each receive 
a bronze medal and a handsome diploma, setting forth the specific purpose 
for which the medal was awarded. Provision has* been made for 75,000 
medals and diplomas. 

Merchant Tailors' Building. — This building was erected under the 
supervision of the Chicago Merchant Tailors' World's Fair Committee, of 
the Merchant Tailors' National Exchange of the United States of Amer- 



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MERCHANT TAILOES' BUILDING. 



ica, at a cost of $30,000, the money having been raised by voluntary contri- 
butions from the merchant tailors and woolen and trimming merchants of 
the United States. The building is 94 feet each way over ail. It is 55 feet, 
6 inches square, inside measurement, and is in the form of a Greek -temple, 

a reproduction of the 
Erectheum, at Athens, 
finished about 410 B. C, 
planned by Pericles, and 
erected under the super- 
vision of Phidias, the 
great Greek sculptor. 
The interior of the main 
room is octagonal in 
shape, which forms a 
small room in each cor- 
ner. Upon the north and 
south sides is a semi-cir- 
cular room, 14x22 feet. 
The toilet and semi-cir- 
cular rooms, also the por- 
tico fr'onting upon the 
lagoon, are strictly pri- 
vate for the exclusive use of subscribers to the Building Fund. The walls 
are finished in cream and gold and decorated with mural paintings, repre- 
senting the eight great historical periods of dress: First, Adam and Eve 
making aprons of leaves; second, a Barbarian scene; third, Egyptian; 
fourth, classical Greek; fifth, mediaeval; sixth, renaissance; seventh, Louis 
XIV to XVI; eighth, modern. There are also other frescoes emblematic of 
the trade. The floor leading from the entrance to under the dome, and all 
of the space under the dome (circle 33 feet in diameter), is covered by 
ceramic mosaic from Shropshire, England, which, with the rich drapery of 
the entrances to the private reception rooms, make the merchant tailors' 
exhibit hall most attractive. The building is near the bridge across the 
north pond. 

Midway Plaisance.— Taking the upper part of the main roadway 
leading through the center of Midway Plaisance, from the Exposition 
grounds, the attractions to be seen are in the following order: 

Diamond Match Company's Pavilion; Fire and Guard Station; Hos- 
pital Tent; Workingman's Home; Ambulance Building; International 
Dress and Costume Company; Nursery Exhibits, (viaduct across); Electric 
Scenic Theatre; Libbey Glass Company's Works; Irish Village; Japanese 
Bazaar, (viaduct across); Javanese Village; German Village, Museum and 
Garden, (viaduct across); Zoopaxographical Hall; Streets of Cairo; Persian 
Palace; Eiffel Model Tower; Ferris Wheel, (center of roadway); Vienna 
Cafe, (center of roadway); Algeria and Tunis Theatre and Restau- 



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rant; East India Bazaar; Panorama Volcano Kilauea; Chinese Theatre 
and Joss House; Captive Balloon; Brazil Concert Hall; Ostrich Farm; Cafe 
Chantant; Military Encampment. 

Taking the same route, on the lower part of the roadway from the Ex- 
position grounds, the attractions are in the following order: 

Irish Industries; Adams Express Company Pavilion; Nursery Exhibit, 
(viaduct across); Log Cabin of 1776; Restaurant Supply House; Venice 
Murano Company; Hagenback's Animal Show, (viaduct across); Dutch 
Settlement; Vienna Bakery and Natatorium; Panorama Bernese Alps; 
Turkish Village, Bazaar and Mosque, (viaduct across); Sliding Railway; 
Moorish Palace; Model of St. Peter; Glass Spinning; Ice Railway; French 
Cider Press; Fire and Guard Station; Austrian Village; Dahomey Village; 
Lapland Village; National Hungarian Orpheum; Military Encampment. 
[For details concerning the attractions in this part of the Exposition, see 
Catalogue of the Midway Plaisance.] 

Model Workingman's Home. — South end of the grounds near the 
French Colonies' exhibit. It was erected by and is under the supervision 
of the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn. 

Music Hall. — The Music Hall, which is located on the shore of Lake 
Michigan at the northerly end of the great Peristyle, is 140 feet wide by 
246 feet long, and about 65 feet high. The main audience room is in the 
center of the building, and is 126 feet long by the full width of the same, 
and occupies the full height of the structure. The space for the orchestra 
and chorus is at the east end, and it is in the form of a great hemicycle or 
recess, v/hich opens into the main hall by an arch 66 feet wide and 54 feet 
high. This recess is semi-circular in plan at the rear and 50 feet deep from 
the front of the arch to the back of the circle. The ceiling of this recess 
or hemicycle is shaped like a quarter section of a sphere, so that the sound 
of the music is projected forward into the audience room. 
.r Just outside of the arch on the main floor is the platform for the 
orchestra, with the chorus rising behind on a series of wide steps. To the 
west of the orchestra is the parquette, which will seat from 800 to 1,000 
persons. These seats are also arranged on wide steps or platforms which 
rise gradually to the rear end, thus giving an uninterrupted view of the 
stage and conductor to every person. All around this parquette, except 
on the side occupied by the stage, is a loggia or passage about 20 feet 
wide, connecting with the main hall by many wide doorways, thus giving 
ample space for the entrance and exit of the audience with comfort and 
, celerity. Above this loggia, which is about 20 feet high at the exterior 
wall and 14 feet high at the inner wall next the parquette, is the great bal- 
cony, which will seat about 1,200 persons. The seats here are also 
arranged on rising steps, so that every one can have a perfect view of the 
stage and of the audience in the parquette below. The seats of the bal- 
cony sweep around in a semi-circle at the west end opposite the stage, thus 
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Around the front of the balcony are Corinthian columns which support the 
roof, and over the inner space is a large skylight which gives ample 
light by day. Around the rear of the balcony are also a series of large 
windows commanding a view of the great court on the south and the lake 
on the north. The main entrance is at the west end through three wide 
archways into a great vestibule 60x80 feet, and thence through three great 
openings into the loggia about the parquette. On each side of this vesti- 
bule are wide and easy stairways, giving access to the balcony and second 




MUSIC HALL. 



Story of the building, and over the vestibule is a smaller hall 60x80 feet in 
size, which is for a recital hall, etc. Opening off this hall are several 
rooms, used for offices or dressing rooms, about 25x40 feet each. Opening 
upon the vestibule, loggia and the balcony above are large and numerous 
dressing and cloak rooms of about the same size as above. At the other 
end and opening from each end of the orchestral platform are rooms for 
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WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 57 

performers, with ample toilet rooms connected therewith. At the rear of 
the hemicycle are large rooms for the chorus, and reached by private 
entrances directly from the seats. Above these rooms are others of the same 
size, which are used for meetings and as offices for the Bureau of Music. 
There is a third floor, which also contains several large rooms for general 
purposes. On this floor and over the balcony is a large standing place of 
the same size as the balcony below, which opens upon the main hall 
through a series of arched openings in the coved ceiling of the audience 
room, which will hold a great many people in case of an extra occasion, 
and is reached by ample stairways. The interior of the hall is richly dec- 
orated in color, with emblematic paintings on the face of the east wall 
above the great arch, and in the panels of the ceiling. It has been specially 
planned for acoustic effect. The great arch of the hemicycle is richly 
ornamented with architectural detail, and the whole can be brilliantly 
lighted by electricity in the most novel effects. The architecture of the 
exterior is, like that of the Casino and Peristyle— Roman Corinthian — and 
richly ornamented in detail. Around the entablature above the columns 
are inscribed the names of the great composers, and on the pedestals 
of the balustrade surmounting the cornice are placed many statues, 12 feet 
high, emblematic of the art of music. 

The Bureau of Music, composed of Theodore Thomas, Musical Direct- 
or; William L. Tomlins, Choral Director, and George H. Wilson, Secre- 
tary, has announced the following plan in general for music during the six 
months of the Exposition: 

1. Semi-weekly orchestral concerts in Music Hall. 

2. Semi-monthly choral concerts in Music Hall. 

3. ' Six series of International concerts, choral and orchestral, each consisting of 
from four to six, in Festival Hall and in Music Hall. 

4. Three series of oratorio festivals by United American Choral societies in Festival 
HaU. 

5. Concerts in Festival Hall, under the auspices of German singing societies. 

6. Concerts in Festival Hall, under the auspices of Swedish singing societies. 

7. Six series of popular miscellaneous festival concerts by American singers. 

8. Twelve children's concerts by Sunday-school, public school, and specially organ- 
ized children's choruses. 

9. Chamber music concerts and organ recitals. 

10. Daily popular concerts of orchestral music in Festival Hall. 

National Commissioners. — Two from each State and Territory, pro- 
vided for by the Act of Congress creating the World's Columbian Commis- 
sion; appointed by the President of the United States, on the nomination of 
the governors of the States and Territories, respectively; also two alter- 
nate commissioners appointed in the same manner and within the same 
time; also eight commissioners at large and two from the District of Col- 
umbia, appointed by the President of the United States, and the same num- 
ber of alternate commissioners, appointed in the same manner and within 
the same time. In the nominations and appointments each of the two lead- 
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sented. Vacancies in the Commission nominated by the governors of the 
several States and Territories, respectively, and also vacancies in the Com- 
mission-at-Large and from the District of Columbia may be filled in the 
same manner and under the same conditions as provided for their original 
appointments. Immediately after the passage of the Act, the Secretary of 
State of the United States notified the governors of the several States and 
Territories, respectively, thereof and requested such nominations to be 
made. The commissioners so appointed were called together by the 
Secretary of State of the United States in the City of Chicago, by notice to 
the commissioners, within thirty days after their appointment. The com- 
missioners, at the first meeting, organized by the election of such ofificers 
and the appointment of such committees as they deemed expedient. [For 
full particulars relating to Commissioners, see Official Directory.] 

New England Clam Bake Building.^This building is located on the 
north pond near a group of foreign buildings. Its dimensions are 60x120 
feet. It is used as a fish restaurant. The upper story is occupied as head- 
quarters of Knights Templars. 

Old Times Distillery. — Southwest of the Anthropological Building. 

Origin of the Idea of an Exposition— Claimed by Mr. A. D. Anderson, 
of Washington, D. C, and Dr. Charles W. Zaremba, of Chicago, respect- 
ively. Dr. A. W. Harlan, a dentist of Chicago, first proposed Chicago in 
print as the location of a Columbian World's Fair. His letter to this effect 
was printed in the Chicago Times, February 16, "'.882. 

Other International Expositions. — The following table shows some 
interesting facts concerning eight International Expositions held in the 
past: 



Where held. 



London 

Paris 

London 

Paris 

Vienna ... 

Philadelphia - 

Paris... 

Paris 



Year 


Number 


when 


of exhib- 


held. 
1851 


itors. 


17,900 


1855 


22,000 


1862 


29,0 


1867 


52,000 


1873 


42.009 


1876 


60,000 


1878 


52.000 


18^9 


60,000 



Number 

of 

admissions. 



6,039,195 

5,lb2,330 

6,211,103 

10,200,000 

7,251,687 

9,9:0,9P6 

13,000,000 

32,354,111 



No, of 
days 
open. 



144 

200 
171 
217 

286 
159 
194 

183 



Average I No. of acres oc- 
daily \ cupied by 

attendance. | buildings. 



41,938 
25,811 
36,322 
47,470 
39 003 
62,333 
67,010 
181,170 



21 

24H 

231/2 

37 

40 

56 

60 

75H 



Peristyle. — The connecting structure between the Music Hall and the 
Casino, at the foot of the Basin. It is 600 feet long, 60 feet wide and 60 
feet high. At its center is a grand archway, forming a portal from Lake 
Michigan to the Grand Central Court. This portal is dedicated to Colum- 
bus, and is inscribed with the names of the world's great explorers. Crown- 
ing it is a group of statuary, emblematic of the progress of the world. The 
Peristyle bears forty-eight columns, representing the States and Terri- 
tories. Each State's column bears its coat of arms. The cost of the Peri- 
style, with the Casino and Music Hall, was S300,000. 

Piers. — There are four piers in all. These are the Park Haven, 250x 
2,300 feet, and carrying a movable sidewalk upon it, which has a loop at 



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both ends; the north-inlet pier; the pier around the battle-ship and the down- 
town pier. 

Polish Building. — The Polish Building is constructed after the style of 
a country pavilion, such as is found in the forests of that land. Its dimen- 




EAST SIDE OF PERISTYLE, LOOKING NORTH. 



sions are 50x80, and its height is two stories. It contains a restaurant con- 
ducted upon the Russian and Polish plans, where meals are furnished 
cooked in the manner peculiar to those two lands. This Structure is located 
ne^r the Fisheries Building. It cost $10,000, 




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Postoffice. — In exhibit of the Postoffice Department, United States 
Government Building. 

Power House. — Here are stationed the engines for the 24,000 horse- 
power provided. The largest engine in the plant is about twice the size 
and power of the celebrated Corliss engine. Oil is used for fuel. The 
boilers present a solid bank 600 feet long. Of the 24,000 horse-power, 
17,000 is provided for electricity. 

Publicity and Promotion. — The work done 
and being done by the Department of Publicity 
and Promotion has placed the Exposition in a 
most favorable light before the eyes of the 
world. The Fair has been extensively adver- 
tised, through this department, ever since its 
organization, with Moses P. Handy as its chief. 

Puck Building. — This pavilion is located 
between the Woman's and Horticultural build- 
ings. Its form is a parallelogram, and as to 
architecture it is a combination of all that is 
airy and graceful. The southern entrance is through a semicircular porch 
supported by six elaborately carved columns of quaint design. The central 
group represents the Puck, holding in one hand a crayon and in the other a 
mirror, while on his head is the proverbial pot hat. Beneath this figure arc 
groupedfiguresofcupids emblematizing in their expressions of naughtiness, 
mischief and good natured fun. Every department in the production of 
Puck is exhibited in the building. Artists at work, type-setting, color 
printing on power presses, folding and stitching, are shown, and prove of 
great interest to visitors. 

Pumping Works. — The two pumps have a capacity of 40,000,000 gallons 
of water per day, which constitutes the main Exposition water supply. 

Quadriga. — Immediately east of the " Statue of the Republic." It is 
a part of the Columbian Arch in the Peristyle, and represents Christopher 
Columbus as he appeared at the fete given in his honor on his return from 
his first voyage. 

Receipts and D bursements. — Up to April 1, 1893, there had been 
expended $16,708,826.48 — a sum equal to twice the cost of the Paris Exposi- 
tion. 

Of this amount $14,411,506.74 has gone into the buildings. That amount 
represents every feature of construction at Jackson Park, including the 
preparation of the site and the cost of labor. General expenses, which 
include everything outside of construction, are figured at $2,206,644. This 
includes all salaries and almost every kind of incidentals. One of these 
items is $12,975 for removing ice and snow. From this it will be seen that 
the storms which enveloped the roofs last winter did considerable damage. 
The dedication ceremonies cost $221,158. The opening ceremonies cost but 
|5,000, It cost $108,000 to handle the souvenir qoins. Traveling expenses 



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have been $25,568, and the item of uniforms reaches $12,592, though this 
will be repaid. The stationery and printing bills are $49,925, and postage 
stamps have cost $52,684. Insurance companies have received $72,000 in 
premiums. Janitors have drawn $34,690 for their services. The cost of 
furniture and fixtures for the offices reaches the sum of $43,781 and the rent 




SOUTH ENTRANCE OF ELECTRICITY BUILDING. 



bill has amounted to $58,124. The salaries of clerks has netted $264,754 
and the salaries of officers $260,938. The pay-roll for March shows that 
4,124 persons drew salaries and wages amounting to $314,425, or an average 
compensation of $76.24 per month or $2.46 per day. Contracts for construe- 



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tion purposes amounted to $12,469,201 up to the 1st ultimo, of which $2,361,- 
263.37 was to be paid. The total receipts up to April 1st were $17,496,432.16, 
of which there was a cash balance of $626,396.58 on hand. 

Auditor W. K. Ackerman's report for the month ending May 31st, 1893, 
was as follows: 
Receipts from all sources $20,309,545.91 

Payments: 

Construction .$16,202,936.89 

General expenses 2,940,045.09 

19,142,981.98 

Balance assets $ 1,166,563.93 

Total gate receipts to May 31, including tickets sold prior to 

opening, good on and after May 1 $ 882,905.51 

A large portion of the funds have come from Chicago or corporations 
doing business in this city: $5,500,000 have been subscribed here in capital 
stock; $5,000,000 were given by the city of Chicago; when it became neces- 
sary to put up $5,000,000 worth of bonds on the market, forty-four Chicago 
banks subscribed for $2,314,000, and twelve railroads with terminals here 
took another $1,000,000, making practically $15,000,000 raised in Chicago. 

The United States government has contributed $1,500,000 originally; 
$2,500,000 in souvenir half dollars; $408,250 for construction of the United 
States Buihling; $151,750 for the maintenance of the United States Govern- 
ment exhibit; $20,000 to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the 
expenses of receiving foreign goods for the Exposition; $103,000 for medals 
and diplomas; $688,625 for salaries, etc.. of the National Commission, includ- 
ing the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1894, making a total for all purposes of 
$5,371,625. 

The total appropriations made by foreign countries approximate $7,000,- 
000; by the States and Territories, $6,000,000. ^, 

Relics of Columbus. — The Duke of Verugua sent to the State De- 
partment at Washington the most interesting historical documents in the 
world relating to the voyage and discoveries of Columbus, and these are 
exhibited in the Convent of La Rabida. The documents form a history 
authentic in its character of the doings of the great navigator. All of these 
documents are either written by Columbus himself or signed by Ferdinand 
and Isabella. 

Ruins of Yucatan. — West of the Dairy and Anthropological buildings 
in the south part of the grounds. 

Sale of Liquor. — Prohibited within the grounds, except in restaurants. 
Required to be served only at table in connection with meals. 

Saw Mill Exhibit. — This exhibit is in connection with that of Forestry, 
and it is entirely distinct from the displays of saw-mill and wood-working 



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machinery, which are installed in the Machinery Building. Four saw-niill 
plants are installed, occupying altogether a building measuring 125x300 
feet. The building is plainly constructed, costing only about $35,000. but 
affords ample facilities for a competitive display of saw-mill plants and the 
latest improvements in connection with the same. Exhibitors of saw-mill 
plants in this building bear the expense of installing and operating them. 
One-half of the building is two stories high, to accommodate bands and 
gangs and to provide also a gallery from which visitors may view the working 
of the machinery to good advantage and without danger. This exhibit is 
a very novel and interesting one, as well as instructive to those who desire 
to witness the workings of the latest and most approved saw-mill machinery. 
Service Building. — To the right of the Sixty-second street entrance. 

Sewerage.— The rain water from the roofs is conducted by one system 
of underground pipes into the interior waterways. The flood water from 
the ground is conducted by another system of pipes into Lake Michigan. 
The sewerage proper is forced by hydraulic pressure through a third sys- 
tem of pipes to the cleansing works. Here it is precipitated into tanks, 
where it is purified by a chemical process, and the solids are pressed into 
cakes and burned under the boilers. This sewerage system is on a scale 
sufificiently large for a city of 600,000 population, and constitutes an exhibit 
in itself. 

Site of the Exposition. — In October, 1890, the Committee on Grounds 
and Buildings appointed Mr. D. H. Burnham as chief of construction, and 
on December 8, 1890, the consulting architects, the consulting landscape 
architects and the consulting engineer formed a consulting board under the 
chairmanship of the chief of construction. Late in November, 1890, the 
consulting board, under its instructions, entered upon the duty of devising 
a general plan for the Exposition, taking as a basis for the study of the 
problem the classified list of exhibits which had been prepared by a com- 
mittee charged with that duty. The list, together with such advice received 
directly from the committee, dictated the nurpber and the size of the build- 
ings which would be required to meet the intention of the Act of Congress. 
The larger part of the site dealt with was a swampy, sandy flat, liable 
at times to be submerged by the lake. Other parts were low ridges, which 
had originally been sand bars thrown up by the lake. Upon some of these 
ridges there were trees, most of them oaks, of stunted habit because of the 
sterile and water-soaked soil in which they had grown, and the extreme 
exposure to frigid winds from the lake, to which they had been subject to a 
late period every spring. The idea was that there should be a system of 
navigable water-ways, to be made by dredging-boats working inward from 
the lake through the lowest parts of the site, tlie earth lifted by the boats to 
be so deposited as to add to the area, and increase the elevation of the higher 
parts, which would thus become better adapted to pleasure-ground pur- 
poses, and to be used as the sites for the buildings of the Exposition. 

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Special Days. — Following are the dates assigned by the committee oh 
ceremonies for State, foreign and other celebrations: 



Italian Societies . . ; Oct. 12 

Minnesota Oct. 13 

Massachusetts .June 17 

iSTorth Dakota ; June 20 

New Hamshire June 21 

Sweden June 24 

Millers' Day June 29 

Independence Day July 4 

College fraternities July 20 

Columbia July 20 

Utah July 24 

Liberia July 26 

Commercial travelers July 26 

Turner bund .... July 27 

New South Wales Aug. 1 

National Union Aug. 

Knights of Pythias Aug. 

I. O. Foresters Aug. 

Hayti Aug. 

Austria Aug. 

North Carolina Aug. 

Colored people Aug. 

Special days have already been held as follows: 



31 
1 



2 
4 
7 
9 
12 



2 

9 
12 
16 

18 
18 
25 



The Netherlands Aug. 

Nicaragua .;;.... Sept. 

Catholic Education Day. , . ; Sept. 

New York Sept. 

Brazil Sept. 

California Sept. 

Maryland Sept. 

Michigan Sept. 13, 14 

Costa Rica Sept. 15 

Mexico Sept. 15 

Kansas Sept. 15 

New Mexico Sept. 16 

Nevada Sept. 18 

Colorado Sept. 19 

Montana Sept. 20 

Sons of America Sept. 20 

Iowa Sept. 21 

Odd Fellows' Day Sept. 25 

Rhode Island Oct. 5 

Connecticut Oct. 11 

Spain Oct. 12 



Denmark June 



Nebraska June 8 

Travelers' Protective Asso- 
ciation June 10 

France June 14 

Germany June 15 



Catholic Knights of America . May 9 

Vermont May 19 

Washington May 17 

Norway May 17 

Wisconsin May 23 

Maine May 24 

Kentucky Jurte 1 

Statuary. — Administration Building. — Groups around the Dome: 
Commerce, Industry, Justice, Religion, War, Peace, Science, Art. Groups 
on the Corner Pavilions: Charity, Truth, Strength, Abundance, Tradition, 
Liberty, Joy, Diligence, Education, Unity, Patriotism, Theology. Single 
Figures: Fishermaid, Bather, Air, Diana, Harvesting, Electricity, Black- 
smith, Chemistry. Groups at sides of the Four Entrances: Water, Uncon- 
trolled; Water, Controlled; Fire, Uncontrolled; Fire, Controlled; Air, Un- 
controlled; Air, Controlled; Earth, No. 1; Earth, No. 2. Interior Figures: 
"Victory." Karl Bitter, sculptor. 

Agricultural Building. — Two "Ceres" Groups. Eight "Four 
Seasons" Groups. Four Horoscope Groups. Four Cattle Groups. Four 
Horse Groups. Four "Pilio," for the corner Pediments. 20 Figures of 



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"Zodiac." 68 Figures "Abundance." The "Glorification of Ceres" in the 
Main Pediment. Larkin G. Mead, Florence, Italy, sculptor. 

Machinery Hall. — 10 figures of "Sciences." The East Pediment. 
Figure of "Victory," of which 13 casts were made in copper, by W. H. 
Mullins, of Salem, Ohio. M. A. Waagen, sculptor. 6 Figures of Inventors. 
Figure of "Victory," of which four casts were made in copper, by W. H. 
Mullins, Salem, Ohio. Robert Kraus, sculptor. 

Colonnade. — One Cattle Group. One Horse Group. Four Large 
Lions, at the base of the obelisk. M. A. Waagen, sculptor. 

Music Hall, Casino and Peristyle. — "Quadriga" Bull and Horse. 
French & Potter, sculptors. Figures: "Orator," "Indian," "Navigation," 
"Fisherboy," "Music." Theodore Baur, sculptor. Four Groups on Water 
Gates. Bela Pratt, sculptor. 





ON ADMIXISrEATTON BUrLDIXG. 

Transportation Building.— 16 Figures of Inventors. 8 Groups. 5 
Bas-reliefs, representing progress in transportation methods. J. J. Boyle, 
sculptor. 

Horticultural Building. — Two Groups. Battle of Flowers, Sleep 
of Flowers, "Flora." Six Single Figures. Lorado Taft, sculptor. Cupid 
Frieze, extending all around the building. 

Galleries of Fine Arts. — 8 "Caryatides" and 12 Figures of Angels. 
Philip Martiny, sculptor. One "Renommee" (Victory). 8 Figures of Arts 
and Sciences. Olin L. Warner, sculptor. Five Busts of Celebrated Artists, 
by Warner: Angelo, Titian, Raphael, Rembrandt, Valasquez. 

Animals for the Bridges. — Six Native Animals of America, mod- 
eled by each of these gentlemen: Edw. Kemeys, A. P. Proctor, sculptors. 



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Woman's Building. — Pediment, "Glorification of Woman Work." 
12 Groups, 6 casts each of "Hope" and "Charity. Miss Ahce Rideout, 
sculptor. 

Statue of "Neptune," — Duplicated Six Times, on Rostral Columns, 
Johannes Gelert, sculptor. 




ON ADMINISTEATION BUILDING. 

Statue of the Republic. — Mr. D. C. French's statue, "The Repub- 
lic," is impressive and imposing in the highest degree. Rising from the 
waters of the lagoon, with the Peristyle for a background and facing the 
Administration Building, it is not dwarfed by comparison with either. Of 
colossal size (the statue proper is 65 feet in height), the characteristics of the 



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figure are simplicity and grandeur. The pose is firm and majestic, the 
drapery chaste and severe; the expression is that of confident power and 
benign purpose. The arms are uplifted with easy grace, the right hand 
holding aloft a globe on which is perched the American Eagle; the left 




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STATUE OF NEPTUNE. 



grasping a staff crowned with a Liberty cap. The statue is gilded. The 
head is encircled by a crown, the jewels of which are electric lights. 

Statue of Benjamin Franklin. — In South Hemicycleof Electricity 
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Wisconsin Building. — "Genius of Wisconsin," in marble. Miss 
Mears, sculptor. "Forward," a ship. Miss Miner, sculptor. 

Kentucky Building. — Statue, "Daniel Boone." By Miss Yandell, 
sculptor. 

Staff. — A composition of plaster, cement and hemp, or similar fiber. 
All the Exposition buildings, and many of the State buildings are covered 
with staff. It is lighter than wood, is fireproof, waterproof, and, if kept 




STATUE OE REPUBLIC. 

painted, will last many years. The architectural and sculptural designs 
in the coverings of the buildings are first modeled in clay, from which 
model molds are made, and the staff covering is then cast very much as 
iron IS cast. Staff has been used for more than 100 years as a covering for 
buildings, notably in South America. One of the wonders of staff, as seen 
at the Exposition, is its color. Grayish white is its natural tone, and the 
basis of its success at Jackson Park; but it will take any tint that on 



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chooses to apply, and maintain a liveliness akin to the soft bloom of the 
human skin. Staff is an expedient borrowed from the Latin countries, and 
much cultivated in South America. Any child skilled in the mechanism 
of a mud pie can make it, after being provided with the gelatine molds and 
a water mixture of cement and plaster. When the staff has hardened, the 
resultant cast is definite, light and attractive. A workman may walk to 
his job with a square yard of the side of a marble palace under each arm 
and a Corinthian capitol in each hand. While it is a little green it may be 
easily sawed and chiseled, and nails are used as in pine. Moreover, rough 
joints arc no objection, since a little wet plaster serves to weld the pieces 
into a finished surface. 

Telegraph Companies. — American District Telegraph Company, 
room 60, 203 Washington street. 

Chicago & Milwaukee Telegraph Company, 56 Board of Trade Build- 
ing. 

Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, 9 Rialto Building. 

Merchantile Telegraph Company, 267 Clark street. 

Postal Telegraph Cable Company, Phenix Building, Clark and Jack- 
son streets. 

Town of Lake District Telegraph and Electric Company, 6L34 Went- 
worth avenue. 

Western Union Telegraph Company, Jackson street and Pacific avenue. 

Telephone Companies. — Central Union Telephone Company — 203 
Washington street. 

Chicago Telephone Company — 203 Washington street. 

South-Stetho Telephone Company — Room 315, 225 Dearborn street. 

The Western Short-Distance Telephone Company — 622 Pullman 
Building, Michigan avenue. 

The Harrison International Telephone Company. A. L. Stone, 
secretary, 1202 Chamber of Commerce Building. 

Telephone Facilities. — The New York, Boston and Philadelphia wires 
of the Long Distance Telephone Company are connected with the World's 
Fair Exchange. Connections have been made at New York with tele- 
phones in other eastern cities. This has been arranged to continue during 
the Exposition, so that at any time visitors can converse by telephone with 
relatives, friends or business partners in the cities of the New England and 
Middle States. 

Terminal Railway Station. — This is a handsome structure, located 
directly west of the Administration Building, and forming the west side of 
the great square. The terminal station is of the Roman-Corinthian style of 
architecture. In general plan this station is divided into three sections. 
The central is 200 feet in length by the full depth of the building. It forms 
the great vestibule. The east and west sections are three stories in height, 
and contain the waiting-rooms, check-rooms, lunch counters, and the general 
railroad offices. The central section extends t'ne full length of the build- 



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ing. A marvelous effect is attained by an immense fjjallery on the second 
floor. The gallery is 25 feet wide, and extends entirely around the central 
section, giving it an aggregate length of some 600 feet. Two broad stair- 
ways, built in the highest art known to moderns, lead up to the gallery from 
the main floor. In actual use the gallery is an additional waiting-room, but 
it also is a convenient place for friends to meet. In the upper part of the 
great hall there is a frieze of clock faces 24 in number and 5 feet in diameter. 
They give the time of day or night at twenty-four of the principal cities of 
the world. The great hall in its principal features and proportions, is 
adapted from the hall of the Baths of Caracalla at Rome. The construc- 
tion material consists of wood and iron and the exterior and interior finish 
and decoration is of staff. Rising above the station are two illuminated 
balls of metal and glass, 10 feet in diameter. They show clock faces in 
every direction giving local time. The terminal facilities include every- 




TEEMINAL RAILWAY STATION. 



thing except baggage-rooms. Trunks of excursionists over the various roads 
will not be taken into the grounds at all, but will be delivered from the 
down-town depots. 

Connected to the west side of the station is the perron, or landing 
platform, 80x672 feet, with an overhanging roof, from which a system of 
umbrella sheds, 13 in number, extend westward a distance of 500 feet. 

The entire system of railroads is concentrated here upon 35 tracks. 
A platform extends along the west side of the building on the level of the 
second story, with wide covered passageways leading over the roof of the 
perron to the intramural elevated railway, which crosses the system of sur- 
face tracks above mentioned. 

The entire cost of the main building is $250,000, and of the perron and 
umbrella sheds, $50,000, making a total of $310,000. 



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Terminal Tracks. — The terminal tracks proper are twenty-six in 
number, terminating at the west side of the train shed, where are located 
the entrance and exit gates. In addition to these twenty-six tracks, are 
nine passing tracks which can be used in an emergency service. Beyond 
these terminal tracks is the storage yard, which consists of twenty storage 
tracks and four running tracks. In the center of the yard between the 
storage and terminal tracks is provided a sixty-six foot turntable for the 
purpose of turning engines or cars if required. There are also provided 




WEST SIDE OF MANUFACTURES BUILDING. 

five water cranes connected with a 50,000 gallon water tank, for the purpose 
of furnishing water to the locomotives." For the operation of this terminal, 
power interlocking is provided. There are in the grounds two switch cabins, 
or towers, A and B. The south tower, B, contains seventy levers and con- 
trols the entrance into the terminal and the south end of the storage yard. 
The north tower. A, contains 160 levers and controls the north end of the 
storage yard and the terminal tracks proper. The power is steam, furnished 



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by a battery of boilers at each tower. The steam forces a column of water 
through an iron pipe under ground, which in turn throws the switch or 
signal. On approaching the yard a train meets with a signal, and from that 
time on is completely under the control of the superintendent of terminals, 
who, acting through the levermen in the towers, guides it to its proper track, 
without any possibility of mishap or danger. 

Tickets and Passes. — Contracts were let for furnishing 35,000,000 
admission tickets. Of these 5,000,000 were lithographed, and of such elab- 
orate workmanship that counterfeiting them will be next to impossible. 
These were designed to meet the advance orders* for tickets and they will 
be good whenever presented at the gates. The remaining 30,000,000 are 
simply printed after the style of an ordinary railroad ticket. These tickets 
are not all alike, and a different style will be used each day. They will be 
good only on the day on which they are sold, and will not be offered to the 
public in advance of that day. The entire issue can be changed at any 
hour of the day if it should be found necessary. Thousands of complimen- 
tary cards and passes had to be issued. The list includes the high officials 
of the government, the diplomatic corps, governors, Exposition commis- 
sioners, directors, lady managers, exhibitors, employes, members of the 
press, etc. Nearly all of the passes have affixed the photograph of the 
holder to prevent their being transferred. 

To facilitate the sale of tickets so that visitors can avoid delay at the 
gates if they desire, Superintendent Tucker arranged with the principal 
down-town hotels, merchants, railroad and boat lines to establish branch 
ticket offices, and tickets are on sale at numerous convenient places. 

The passes are composed of coupon-books. The front cover bears the 
Exposition's corporate title, while below it are inscribed the holder's name, 
the account for which it is issued, the department to which it is charged, 
and Mr. Tucker's signature. Inside on the cover is an engraved circle con- 
taining the owner's photograph. On the outside of the back cover is a 
vignette of Columbus, following the design on the souvenir coin. The 
coupons bear successive dates in heavy black letters, beginning with May 
1st and closing with October 30th. On each is stamped: "Not good if 
detached." In addition to those good throughout the season, there are 
books good for individual months for such as need them for a given month 
only. Then there are complimentary cards of exceptionally fine design for 
guests of distinction such as the President of the United States, members of 
the cabinet, etc. When the owner of a complimentary ticket passes the 
gate he will drop his individual card in the collector's box, so the turnstile 
can be opened. 

A charge of $1 is made for each coupon book issued, to cover the cost 
of the book and the leather envelope which goes with it. In addition, 
special badges are issued to exhibitors and their employes, for which a 
(ieposit of $2 is required as a guarantee that the badge will be returned. 



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'l icket Booths and Entrances. — ^The arrangements of the ticket booths 
and entrances at all points on the ground are of such a character and num- 
ber that visitors will not be delayed. Altogether there are 326 turn-stiles, 
97 ticket-booths, 182 ticket windows and 172 exit gates. At the most con- 
servative estimate the entrances are considered capable of admitting 2,000 
people each an hour, which gives a total of admission capacity of 500,000 
an hour if the attendance could be distributed equally at all the gates. As 
it is the great crowds concentrated at the most prominent entrances are 
able to pass as rapidly as the transportation lines can bring them. 

The entrance facilities provided are as follows' 



ENTRANCES. 


6^ 

'-S 
x 

a 

u 

• 3 

H 


u o 


CD 

H 


I 

CD 


North End. 
Cornell avenue 


4 

18 
6 

U 
4 


2 
6 
2 
4 
2 


4 
12 
4 
8 
4 


4 


Fifty-Seventh street 


6 


Fifty-ninth street 


6 


East Illinois Central tracks 


16 


West Illinois Central tracks 


4 






Totals 


46 

12 

10 

10 

2 

2 

4 

40 

4 
4 
10 
2 
4 


16 

6 
4 
4 
1 
1 
2 


32 

12 
8 
8 
2 
2 
4 


36 


South End. 
Sixtieth street 


6 


Sixty-second street 


6 


Sixty-fourth street 


6 


Sixty-fifth street terrace 


2 


Southwest corner Park 


2 


Palmer avenue 


4 






Totals 


18 

2 
2 
6 
1 
2 


36 

4 

4 
IJ 

2 

4 


26 


Midway Plaisance. 
Monroe avenue 




Greenwood avenue 




Cottage Grove avenue 


6 


Greenwood avenue (south) 




Oglesby avenue 








Totals 


24 
96 
16 

100 
4 


13 

13 

4 

10 

1 


26 
26 

8 

20 
2 


6 


Terminal station 








Steamer Landings. 
Casino pier 


100 


Naval pier 


4 






Totals 


104 
326 


11 


22 


104 






Grand totals 


97 


182 


172 







The gate device is a new invention. It is of the ordinary turnstile 
pattern, except that th^ ticket dropped into a slot on on^ side releases the 



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turnstile on the other side of the incomer and registers by an automatic 
arrangement. The man in charge has no duty except to see that the proper 
coupon or ticket is dropped. The exits are independent of the entrances 
and so relieve the crowd around the gates. When the ticket is deposited 
it is chopped with an automatic cutter that takes three big sections out of 
one side of the ticket and two out of the other, preventing any further use 
of the ticket. 

Toilet Rooms.— About 1,500 toilet rooms and closets are loc'ated at 
convenient points in the buildings and about the grounds and they are 
absolutely free to the public. This is as large a number in proportion to 
the estimated attendance as has ever been provided in any Exposition. 
In addition to these there are also nearly an equal number of lavatories 
and toilet rooms of a costly and handsome character as exhibits, for the 
use of which a charge of five cents is made. 

Vehicles and Supplies. — The following rules were promulgated by the 
Director-General. 

1. No wagon or vehicle of any kind propelled by animal or other 
power will be allowed about the grounds during the hours the Exposition 
is open to the public, save emergency vehicles, such as fire apparatus, and 
police or hospital patrol wagons, and wagons or carts propelled by man 
power. This, however, shall not be taken to prohibit the unrestricted use 
of the official conveyances of the Council of Administration, Director- 
General, Director of Works, and such others as may from time to time be 
expressly authorized and permitted under the specific orders of the Council 
of Administration. 

2. All supplies arriving at the Exposition grounds, either by rail, 
vessel or team, must be delivered to the designated warehouse, and there 
stored until after the hour of closing the Exposition, when the work of 
delivering such supplies, etc., will begin by and under the direction of the 
Transportation department. The charge for this service will be at the rate 
of six cents per hundred pounds, with twenty-five cents minimum, with no 
charge for storage unless supplies remain on hand longer than five. days. 
If held in storehouse more than five days, storage rates will be the same as 
specified in Circular T. D. 47, of January 4th. Orders for the handling and 
delivery of goods must be filed at the office of the Transportation depart- 
ment of the Terminal Station not later than 5:00 p. m. of each day, of the 
service to be performed that night. 

3. A limited amount of perishable supplies, such as are absolutely 
needed, will be delivered through the day by carts propelled by man power. 
The charge for this service will be twelve cents per hundred pounds, under 
the same regulations as to the use of warehouses as quoted in Paragraph 2. 

4. All such service must be performed by team and employes that are 
in the service of the Exposition, excepting that the Associated, American 
and Adams Express companies may deliver packages arriving over their 
lines with their own forces, but under the direction of the Transportation 



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department, at such hours as above designated. The Hyde Park Gas 
Company may deliver their materials and tools for making repairs to their 
system under these same regulations. 

5. Payments for this service must be made in advance by means of 
tickets secured from the Department of Collections. 

6. Any complaints regarding the service must be entered at the Trans- 
portation department office at the Terminal Station. 

Viaducts. — Have been built by the Exposition Company over Stony 




LOOKINa NOBTHEAST FBOM DOME OF ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. 

Island avenue, Madison avenue, Woodlawn avenue, as well as the Illinois 
Central tracks at Van Buren street. 

Vote on Location. — The vote in the House of Representatives in Con- 
gress for location of the Fair was as follows: 

On the first roll call the number of votes was announced as 305 making 
153 necessary to a choice. Of these Chicago secured 115; New York, 70; 
St. Louis, 61; Washington, 58; Cumberland Gap, 1. No choice, and it 



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was evident that the situation woul narrow down to a trial of strength be- 
tween Chicago and New York, 

Second — Chicago, 121; New York, 83; St. Louis, 59; Washington 46, 
Total, 309. Necessary to a choice, 155. 

Third— Chicago, 127; New York, 92; St. Louis, 53; Washington, 84. 
Total, 306. Necessary to a choice 154. 

Fourth — Chicago, 134; New York, 95; St. Louis, 48; Washington, 29. 
Total, 306. Necessary to a. choice, 154. 

Fifth— Chicago, 140; New York, 110; St. Louis, 38; Washington, 4. 
Total, 312. Necessary to a choice, 157. 

At this stage there was some anxiety among the Chicago members as 
to the result of the next roll call; for New York on the last had gained 15 
votes, while her own forces had been increased by six. These fears were 
groundless however, as the sixth ballot carried their total up 149, while 
New York only received 116. The managers for the latter city sought to 
gain time to strengthen their lines, and moved an adjournment. The mo- 
tion was defeated, yeas, 138; nays, 174, a test which plainly indicated the 
coming event. Nor did the New Yorkers interpose any further attempt at 
delay, and the clerk proceeded for the seventh time to call the roll, and still 
no election, though Mr. Reyburn, of Pennsylvania, left New York to swell 
the Chicago column, and she lacked now only two votes to consummate the 
triumph. Then the last vote was taken. 

Eighth— Chicago, 157; New York, 107; St. Louis, 25; Washington, 18 
Total, 307. Necessary to a choice, 154. 

Washington Big Tree. — South end of the grounds; northeast of the 
Cliff Dwellers. 

White Star Line Building. — Adjoining the "Puck" building and used 
as an exhibit for the "White Star Line" of transatlantic steamers. 

Windmill Exhibit. — Located to the south of Machinery Hall. Numbers 
of windmills are to be seen in operation. 

Woman's Dormitory. — For the benefit of the great army of "industrial 
women," "wage-earners" and "working girls," who visit the Exposition, the 
Woman's Dormitory Association was formed, the object being to procure for 
these women a good, clean, safe home at reasonable rates. A building not 
far from the grounds has been erected capable of sheltering 1,000 women 
per day. This dormitory is furnished with comfortable beds and toilet 
conveniences, and is presided over by refined, motherly women who keep a 
watchful care over unprotected girls who come singly or in groups. Stock 
in the association, in shares of $10, was issued to a large number of deserv- 
ing women, and the shares are taken at the dormitories in payment for 
lodging bills. Only two persons are allowed to come at one time on a 
single share. These shares are transferable, and if the face value is not 
used by the holder during her stay, it can be made over to another, who can 
use the balance. After the $10 has been used the share still stands on the 
association books, credited to the holder, and she is entitled to her />ro rata 



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OFFICERS OF THE WORLD'S COLUMBL\N COMMISSION. 



2. Thomas M. Waller, 

ist Vice-Pres. 
5, GOKTON W. Allex, 

■ith Vice-Pres. 
8. 11. P. Platt, 

\ice-Chuinnan Ex. Cum. 



1. Thomas W. Palmer, 

I'residi nt. 
i. Davidson R. Penn, 

3rf Vice-Pres. 
7. John T. Dickinson, 
Secretary. 



3. M. H. DeYoung, 

2d Vice-Pres. 
6. Alex. B. Andrews, 

5</i Vice-Pres. 
9. George R. Davis, 
Director-General. 



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OFFICERS OF THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 

1. Anthony F Seeberger, Treasurer. 
2. Ferdinand W. Peck, 1st Vice-President. 3. Robert A. Waller, 2d Vice-President. 

4. Harlow N. Higtnbotham, President. 
5. Howard O. Edmonds, Sccretnri/. 6. Samuel A. Crawford, Assistant Secretary, 

7. William K.- Ackerman, Auditor. 8. (-harles V. BAHRir^GVoti, Assistant Auditor, 



WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 79 

of the profits, if a surplus remaiiis after the enterprise is closed. The rate 
per day to stockholders does not exceed forty cents; non-holders of stock 
are charged a slightly higher rate. 

The dormitory is located on Ellis avenue, occupying the entire block 
between Fifty-second and Fifty-third streets. This location is one of the 
pleasantest portions of Hyde Park, some ten or twelve blocks from the 
Exposition, and within three blocks of the Cottage Grove avenue cable line 
which, for a five-cent fare, carries passengers in six or eight minutes to the 
Exposition grounds. It is a frame structure, two stories high, built for the 
association and newly furnished with plain, but comfortable single wire- 
spring cots, mattresses, etc. About one-half the rooms are single, the 
balance double; all looking out upon the street, yard, or inner court. No 
beds are wide enough to accommodate two adults, but children young 
enough to sleep two in a bed are charged half rates, provided the full rate 
for the bed is paid. In connection with the dormitory there is a restaurant 
established for the sole use of its guests where meals are scheduled at 
reasonable rates and guaranteed quality. The dormitory is under the 
auspices of the local Board of Lady Managers and other philanthrophic 
women who have given much thought and time to the enterprise, believing 
it to be a worthy object, and that it will, as carried out, afford means to 
hundreds of women to visit the Exposition who otherwise would not make 
the venture or be able to afford the expense. 

Wooded Island. — Contains sixteen acres; is devoted to floriculture 
and horticulture, except the extreme north end, which is occupied by the 
Japanese exhibit. 

Work of Organization. — May 7, 1890, the work of organization was 
mapped out. The books of the temporary treasurer, W. J. Onahan, were 
reported to be correct, and a resolution of thanks was tendered him. A. F. 
Seeberger was chosen treasurer, and W. K. Ackerman, auditor. On motion 
of Mayor Cregier a call was authorized of $1.80 upon each share of stock, 
payable on the 1st Monday in July. Mr. Bryan secured the adoption of a 
resolution providing for a general meeting of the stockholders on July 12, 
1890, to consider the following proposals and recommendations of the direc- 
tory. 

1. To increase the capital stock to ten millions of dollars. 

2. To change the name of the company to the World's Columbian 
Exposition. 

3. To adopt by-laws and approve the intermediate action of the direc- 
tors. 

After providing for a Committee on Ways and Means, to consist of 
thirteen members, and instructing the secretary to offer at the next meeting 
a design for the Corporate Seal, the standing committees were announced. 
[See history of the Exposition, in Official Directory.] 

World's Columbian Exposition.— The World's Columbian Exposition 
is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illi- 
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nois (licensed April 9, 1880), its object being "The holding of an Interna- 
tional Exposition or World's Fair in the city of Chicago, in the State of 
Illinois, to commemorate on its four hundredth anniversary the discovery 
of America." The capital stock of the Exposition is 810,000,000, of which 
$6,000,000 is subscribed, the stockholders numbering over 30,000, nearly all 
of whom are residents of the city of Chicago. 

The government and control of the corporation is vested in a board of 
forty-five directors, chosen annually at the meeting of the stockholders. 

The Act of Congress providing for the Exposition requires the corpor- 
ation to prepare the plans for the Exposition, and the rules and regulations 
governing rates of entrance, admission fees, and otherwise affecting the 
rights, privileges and interests of exhibitors or the public, subject to modi- 
fication by a majority of the members of the World's Columbian Com- 
mission. 

Under the terms of the act as above mentioned, it has been the pro- 
vince of the corporation to select a site for the Exposition, prepare plans 
and specifications for the same, construct the buildings and prepare the 
grounds in a manner suitable for the holding of an International 
Exposition. 

In addition to the above duties, the Board of Directors of the Exposi- 
tion, under an agreement with the World's Columbian Commission, 
adopted by both bodies in November, 1890, supplies the necessary funds 
for carrying on the fifteen great departments under the Director-General, 
and exercises supervision over said departments with a view to ascertain- 
ing that the funds so provided are properly and judiciously expended for 
the purposes of the Exposition. For the purpose of carrying on its busi- 
ness the Board of Directors elects each year a president, two vice-presi- 
dents, secretary, treasurer and auditor, and certain committees, are ap- 
pointed by the president. 

World's Columbian Commission. — The duties, powers and compen- 
sation of the National Commission are set forth in the Act of Congress, as 
follows: 

That said Commission be empowered in its discretion to accept for the purposes of 
the World's Columbian Exposition such site as may be selected and offered and such plans 
and specifications of buildings to be erected for such purpose at the expense of and tendered 
by the corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, known as "The 
World's Exposition of eighteen hundred and ninety-two." Provided, That said site so 
tendered and the buildings proposed to be erected thereon shall be deemed by said Com- 
mission adequate to the purposes of said Exposition : And Provided, That said (Commis- 
sion shall be satisfied that the said corporation has an actual bona fide and valid subscrip- 
tion to its capital stock which will secure the payment of at least five millions of dollars, 
of which not less than five hundred thousand dollars shall have been paid in, and that the 
farther sum of five million dollars, making in all ten million dollars, will be provided by 
said corparation in ample time for its needful use during the prosecution of the work for 
the complete preparation for said Exposition. 

That the said Commission shall allot space for exhibitors, prepare a classification of 
exhibits, determine the plan and scope of the Exposition, and shall appoint all judges and 
examiners for the Exposition, award all premiums, if any, and generally have charge of all 



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interconrse with the exhibitors and tlie representatives of foreign nations. And said Com- 
mission is authorized and required to appoint a Board of Lady Managers of such number 
and to perform such duties as may be prescribed by said Commission, 8aid Board may 
appoint one or more members of all committees authorized to award prizes for exhibits 
which may be produced in whole or in part by female labor. 

That after the plans for said Exposition shall be prepared by said corporation and 
approved by said Commission, the rules and regulations of said corporation governing 
rates for entrance and admission fees, or otherwise affecting the rights, privilegos, or inter- 
ests of the exhibitors or of the public, shall be fixed or established by said corporation, 
subject, however, to such modification, if any, as may be imposed by a majority of said 
Commissioners. 

That it shall be the duty of the Commission to make report, from time to time, to the 
President of the United States of the progress of the work, and, in a final report, present 
a full exhibit of the results of the Exposition. 

That the Commission hereby authorized shall exist no longer than until the first day 
of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. 

That the Commissioners and alternate Commissioners appointed under this act shall 
not be entitled to any compensation for their services out of the Treasury of the United 
States, except their actual expenses for transportation and the sum of six dollars per dny 
for subsistence for each day they are necessarily absent from their homes on the business 
of said Commission. The ofHcers of said Commission shall receive such compensation as 
may be fixed by said Commission, subject to the approval of tlie Secretary of the Treasury, 
which shall be paid out of the sums appropriated by Congress in aid of such Exposition. 




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DEPARTMENTAL BUILDINGS. 



[For Full Details Concerning the Several Great Departments, from A 
— (Agriculture), to P — (Foreign Affairs), see Official Directory.] 

Administration. — Dimensions, 262 feet square. Height of outer dome, 
277>^ feet. Height of inner dome, 188 feet. Diameter of dome, 120 feet. 
The four pavilions are 82^ feet square, and 74 feet high. The entrances 
are 50 feet high, and 37 feet wide. At the base of the dome, 136 feet from 
the ground, is a promenade gallery, 18 feet wide. Cost, $550,000. Mater- 
ial — 3,250,000 feet of lumber; 1,562,607 pounds of structural steel. Floor 
area, 4.2 acres. This building is richly ornamented in bas reliefs, frescoing 
and sculpture. Around the base of the dome, on the corners of the pavil- 
ions, and at the entrances are free groups of statuary, emblematic of the 
arts and sciences. These groups are from 20 to 30 feet in height. The 
building lies at the head of the Basin, south of the Mines and Electricity 
buildings, north of Machinery Hall and east of the Terminal Railway Station. 

The building is divided into four grand pavilions known as A, B, C 
and D, occupied from the ground to and including the third floor by offi- 
cials of the Exposition, express, telegraph and telephone companies, bank, 
press headquarters, cafe, Columbian guard, etc., explained below. Above 
the third floor are four tunnel passages leading from one pavilion to 
another. The fourth floor is a circular colonnade for sightseers, and from 
the fifth floor stairways lead to the top colonnade. 

The occupants of the building are as follows: 

Director-General. — The entire second floor of the northwest pavil- 
ion (B). Entering the rotunda from the north, take the first section of ele- 
vators to the left. 

Council of Administration. — The right-hand rooms of the first 
floor of Pavilion B. 

President and Secretary of the Exposition.— The left-hand 
rooms of Pavilion B. 

Secretary of Installation.— South room of the ground floor of 
Pavilion B. 

Collector of Customs. — North room of the ground floor of Paviliorj 
B. 

^OMMiT-yEE ON Awards.— Entire third floor of PavilJQ^ ^, 



WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 85 

President National Commission. — Right-hand room of the second 
floor of the southeast paviHon (A). Entering the rotunda from the north, 
take the second section of elevators to the left. 

Secretary National Commission. — Rooms to the left of the second 
floor of Pavilion A. 

National Com mission. — Room to the left of the third floor of Pavilion A. 

Committee on Ceremonies. — Room to the right of the third floor of 
Pavilion A. 

Western Union and Postal Telegpaph Companies. — Entire 
ground floor of Pavilion A. 

President Board of Lady Managers. — Entire first floor of Pavil- 
ion A. 

Publicity and Promotion. — Second floor of the northwest pavilion 
(C). Entering the rotunda from the north, take the first section of elevators 
to the right. 

Office of the Official Publications. — The Exposition headquart- 
ers of the W. B. Conkey Company, publishers of the official works of the 
Exposition, are in handsomely furnished apartments adjoining the main 
office of the chief of Publicity and Promotion in Pavilion C, on the second 
floor. This company's plant is located in two immense seven-story buildings 
— Nos. 341 to 351 Dearborn street and 63 to 71 Plymouth Place — the largest 
general printing and book manufacturing establishment in the United 
States. Here the complicated mechanical work of getting out the Official 
Directory ,\S\^ Official Catalogue, Conkey s Complete Guide and other Expo- 
sition publications is carried on, in which over 1,200 employes are engaged in 
the colossal undertaking, and where specially prepared machinery, and 
skilled labor are employed. Besides the large number of employes, over 
2,000 others are engaged in the editorial, translating, compiling, clerical, 
advertising and art departments, in traveling, supervising and soliciting, the 
scope of their duties covering all parts of the United States, Europe, and 
indeed, all quarters of the globe. Communication is had from the editorial 
department of the publications in the Administration Building to the publi- 
cation offices downtown by private telephones and messengers. The com- 
pany has also on the grounds a corrugated iron building, 50x100 feet, with 
their own special railroad track leading to it, located in the southern part 
of Jackson Park. It is used as a depot for their supplies and also as a drill 
room for the company's battalion of uniformed boys who are engaged in 
the sale of the Official Catalogues of the different departments. These 
boys, in theirscarlet and black uniforms with gold letters on the cap, 
marching to their respective posts, are a very attractive feature, Command- 
ant Rice having detailed an officer to instruct them so that their appearance 
is soldierly in its bearing. There are storage booths in each department 
where a supply of the Catalogues is kept and from which each boy repl^^- 
igb^s l^is $tock as it is exhausted, 



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Press Associations and Foreign Press.— The entire ground floor 
of Pavilion C. 

Local Press. — The entire first floor of Pavilion C. 

Foreign Affairs. — The entire second floor of the southwest pavilion 
(D). Entering the rotunda from the north, take the second section of ele- 
vators to the right. 

Express Companies. — The entire ground floor of Pavilion D. 

Bank. — The entire first floor of Pavilion D. 

Lockers of the Columbian Guard. — The entire third floor of Pavil- 
ion D. 

Agricultural. — Dimensions, 800 by 500 feet. Height of cornice, 65 feet. 
Height of dome, 130 feet. Floor area, 15 acres. Annex, 550 by 300 feet. 
Floor area, 3.9 acres. Cost of both, $620,000. Material— in main building, 
7,500,000 feet of lumber and 2,000,000 pounds of structural iron; in annex. 
2,000,000 feet of lumber. In connection with this building is an assembly 
hall, 450 by 125 feet; seating capacity, 1,500; cost, $100,000. This building 
is adorned with many groups of statuary of heroic size. The main 
entrance is 64 feet wide, 
and has Corinthian pil- 
lars 50 feet high and 5 
feet in diameter. The 
rotunda is 100 feet in 
diameter, and is sur- 
rounded by the great 
glass dome. It stands 
near the shore of Lake 
Michigan, facing the 
Grand Basin, its princi- 
pal facade being visible 
from the terrace in 
front of the Administra- 
tion Building. Its long- 
est dimensions are east 
and west. Cost, $1,218,- 
000. The Dairy exhibits 
are made in this department. 

Electricity. — The Electrical Building is 345 feet wide and 700 feet long, 
the major axis running north and south. The south front is on the great 
Quadrangle or Court; the north front faces the lagoon; the east front is 
opposite the Manufactures Building, and the west faces the Mines Build- 
ing. The general scheme of the plan is based upon a longitudinal nave 
115 feet wide and 114 feet high, crossed in the middle by a transept of the 
same width and height. The nave and the transept have a pitched roof, with 
a range of skylights at the bottom of the pitch and clear story windows, 




STATUARY, NEAR WEST ENTRANCE OF AGRICULTURAL 
BUILDING. 



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87 



The rest of the building is covered with a flat roof, averaging 62 feet 'in 
height and provided with skylights. The second story is composed of a 
series of galleries, connected across the nave by two bridges, with access 
by four grand staircases. The area of the galleries in the second story is 
118,546 square feet, or 2.7 acres. The exterior walls of this building are 
composed of a continuous Corinthian order of pilasters, 3 feet 6 inches 
wide and 42 feet high, supporting a full entablature, and resting upon a 
stylobate 8 feet 6 inches. The total height of the walls from the grade out- 
side is 68 feet 6 inches. At each of the four corners of the building there 
is a pavilion, above which rises a light, open spire or tower, 169 feet high. 
Intermediate between these corner pavilions and the center pavilions on 
the east and west sides, there 
is a subordinate pavilion bear- 
ing a low, square dome upon 
an open lantern. The building 
has an open portico extending 
along the whole of the south 
facade, the lower or Ionic order 
forming anopen screen in front 
of it. The various subordinate 
pavilions are treated with win- 
dows and balconies. The de- 
tails of^ the exterior orders are 
richly decorated, and the pedi- 
ments, friezes, panels and 
spandrils have received a dec- 
oration of figures in relief, with 
architectural motifs, the gen- 
eral tendency of which is to 
illustrate the purposes of the 
building. The appearance of 
the exterior is that of marble, 
but the walls of the hemicycle and of the various porticoes and loggia are 
highly enriched with color, the pilasters in these places being decorated 
with scagliola, and the capitals with metallic effects in bronze. 

Ethnology. — This department, although generally known as that of 
Ethnology, includes the several groups of ethnology, archaeology, anthropo- 
logical laboratory, history and natural history of which the general exhibits 
are in the Anthropological Building; also the Latin American exhibit— the 
special exhibit of the relics of the time of Columbus arranged in the Con- 
vent of La Rabida; the roproductions of the ancient ruins of Yucatan on 
the grounds immediately north of the Anthropological Building; and the 
ethnographical exhibition of native people of America, who are living in 
their native habitations on the stretch of land along the eastern side of tliq 




STATUE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, SOUTH EN- 
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south pond between the Anthropological Building and the Indian school- 
house. Just north of the Indian school-house is the Convent of La Rabida, 
and near.it is the log house of pioneer times, which belongs to the historical 
section of the department. The Anthropological Building was the last of 
the Exposition buildings to be constructed, when it was found to be necessary 
to obtain more space for the section of education in the Manufactures and 
Liberal Arts Building. The Ethnological department was then assigned to 
the new building and the space it was to have had in the Manufactures Build- 
ing was given to the section of Education. The building is 415 feet long and 
255 feet wide, with a gallery 48 feet wide on all four sides. Thirty thousand 
square feet on the southern end of the floor is given up to the sections of 
Hygeine and Sanitation and of Charities and Corrections belonging to the 
Liberal Arts. The remainder of the floor is occupied by the archaeological 
and ethnological exhibits of foreign countries, State boards and individuals, 
and the collections made by the assistants of the department who were 
sent to varigus parts of North, Central and South America to make special 
explorations and researches under the direction of the chief of the depart- 
ment. 

Fine Arts. — The Palace of Fine Arts is Grecian-Ionic in style, and is a 
pure type of the most refined classic architecture. Perhaps no building in 
the world, and certainly no one in the United States, surpasses it in beauty. 
Connoisseurs have pronounced it perfect in every detail, and have been 
lavish in the praise of the chief designer, Mr. C. B. Atwood. It is difficult 
to determine which is the most strikingly handsome and impressive— the 
exterior or interior. The structure is oblong, and is 500 by 320 feet, inter- 
sected north, east, south and west by a nave and transept one hundred feet 
wide and seventy feet high, at the intersection of which is a dome sixty feet 
in diameter. The building is 125 feet to the top of the dome, which is sur- 
mounted by a colossal statue of the type of famous figures of Winged Wa- 
tory. The transept has a clear space through the center of sixty feet, being 
lighted entirely from above. The building is located near the north end of 
the grounds. 

On either side are galleries twenty feet wide and twenty-four feet above 
the floor. The collections of the sculpture are displayed on the main floor 
of the nave and transept, and on the walls both of the ground floor and of 
the galleries are ample areas for displaying the paintings and sculptured 
panels in relief. The corners made by the crossing of the nave and tran- 
sept are filled with small picture galleries. 

Around the entire building are galleries forty feet wide, forming a con- 
tinuous promenade around the structure. Between the promenade and the 
naves are the smaller rooms devoted to private collections of paintings and 
the collections of the various art schools. On either side of the main build- 
ing, and connected with it by handsome corridors, are very large annexes, 
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The main building is entered by four great portals, richly ornamented 
with architectural sculpture, and approached by broad flights of steps. The 
walls of the loggia of the colonnades are highly decorated with mural 
paintings, illustrating the history and progress of the arts. The frieze of 
the exterior walls and the pediments of the principal entrances are orna- 
mented with sculptures and portraits in bas-relief of the masters of ancient 
art. The general tone or color is light gray stone. The construction is 
necessarily fire-proof. The main walls are of solid brick, covered with 
"staff," architecturally ornamented, while the roof, floors and galleries are 
of iron. All light is supplied through glass skylights in iron frames. The 
building is located in the northern portion of the Park, with the south front 
facing the lagoon. It is separated from the lagoon by beautiful terraces, 
ornamented with balustrades, with an immense flight of steps leading down 
from the main portal to the lagoon, where there is a landing for boats. The 
north front faces the wide lawn and the group of State buildings. The im- 
mediate neighborhood of the building is ornamented with groups of statues, 
replica ornaments of classic art, such as the Choriagic monument, the 
"Cave of the Winds," and other beautiful examples of Grecian art. The 
ornamentation also includes statues of heroic and life-size proportions. 

There is an eastern and western annex to the main building each of 
which is 120x200 feet. 

Fish and Fisheries.— Approaching the Fisheries Building from either 
front one is impressed with its beauty and general grace of construction. 
The tall dome towers high above the gables of the main structure, while 
the small turrets that adorn the dome and main entrances appear in pleas- 
ing contrast with the red-tiled roof, columns, and arches. Flanked on both 
the east and west by small pavilions and connecting arcades, the whole pre- 
sents an architectural view of great magnificence. The infinite detail of 
fishes and other aquatic animals with which the columns, arches and friezes 
are decorated in bas-relief, is gratifying to the eye, and the skill and inge- 
nuity displayed by the ornamentation are as remarkable for originality as 
for fitness. The building is located in the north-east end of the grounds. 

Forestry. — The forest resources of the world are exhibited in the 
Forestry Building, which is one of the most interesting and unique struc- 
tures on the grounds. It is made of wood and has a colonnade composed 
of tree trunks sent from almost every State in the Union. For instance: 
Arkansas furnished pine, white oak, red oak and sassafras; California, 
sugar pine, redwood and trunks of the young sequoia; Delaware, red cedar, 
white oak and white ash; Kansas, bur oak, hickory, huckleberry, sycamor 
and walnut; Minnesota, white pine, sugar maple, ash, oak, cottonwood, 
spruce, box cedar, tamarack and elm; Wisconsin, pine, white oak, bass- 
wood, elm, birch and spruce. Vestibule of yellow pine, artistic in design 
and erected by the Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Association, has been 
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eastern portion of the grounds, and its dimensions are 200 by 500 feet, with 
a central height of sixty feet. Surrounding the building is a spacious 
portico sixteen feet wide, each of the columns of which is formed of three 
trunks in their natural state, ccntributed as stated above by the various 
States, Territories and Canada, illustraring their characteristic woods. 
Each trunk contains a tablet, on which is engraved the name of the tree, the 
name of the State, Territory or Province furnishing the same, and an esti- 
mate when furnished of the quantity of such timber standing thereon. 
The sides, window-frames and roofs present e rustic appearance, and flag- 
staffs bearing flags of various foreign governments are on all sides of the 
building. 

The exhibits comprised in Group 19 of the official classification 
embrace a variety of forest products, including samples of wood and timber; 





STATUARY ON HORTICULTURAL BUILDING. 

ornamental woods, dye-woods, barks and vegetable substances; gums and 
resins; medicinal roots and herbs; wood pulp, paper and wooden ware; 
seed collections; statistics of the lumber trade and of forestry, etc. 

Horticulture. — The Horticultural Building is an imposing, central, 
glazed dome, 114 feet high on the inside and 187 feet in diameter, with a 
gallery extending around a well or open center. Four parallelogram- 
shaped rooms, technically called curtains, each 270 feet long, connect the 
dome and central pavilion, forming two interior courts 90 feet wide by 270 
feet long. Each end pavilion is two stories high, with an area of 117 by 250 
feet on each floor. The style is Venetian renaissance, the order Ionic, with 
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vestibule, with statues on either side, representing the awakening and sleep 
of flowers, forms the main or grand entrance. Opposite the main entrance 
and flanked on either side along the lagoon with long rows of mammoth 
vases filled with flowers and trailing plants, is a succession of steps leading 
down to a broad landing, for picturesque gondolas and other water craft. 
The dome is sufficiently large to admit of the construction of a miniature 
tropical mountain and an extensive cave underneath. Several cascades are 
formed upon the sides of the mountain, and the sparkling waters leap from 
rock to rock under the foliage of the largest palms, tree ferns and other 
tropical plants that have ever been collected in a conservatory. Australia, 
many Central and South American countries, Africa and every nation in 
Europe, the West Indies, China, and the largest conservatories in the 
United States have contributed to the collection of plants which are exhib- 
ited in the dome and east curtains. Japan, among many rare plants, fur- 
nishes some dwarf trees more than 100 years old and only a few feet in 
height. The entire cave is constructed of stalagmites, stalactites and quartz 
crystals from a South Dakota cave, and the numerous electric lights placed 
within it produces a most dazzling and pleasing effect. The dome gallery 
contains exhibits of herbariums, florists' supplies, fruit and flower plates, 
etc., and is used as a promenade from which to look down on the plant dis- 
plays. The west curtains, in which the pomological exhibit is installed, 
aggregate 692 feet in length and are 46 feet wide. The 35,000 plates and 
jars of fruits are from every part of the world, and are represented either in 
fresh specimens, wax models, or varieties preserved in fluids. The build- 
ing is located in the west part of the grounds near the Sixtieth street 
entrance. 

Liberal Arts. — This department occupies the south end of Manufact- 
ures Building. In the department are found exhibits pertaining to educa- 
tion, hygiene, sanitation, charities, medicine and surgery, literature, books, 
libraries, journalism, physical science, engineering, architecture, govern- 
ment and law, commerce, social and religious organizations, music and the 
drama. 

Live Stock. — The Live Stock Pavilion is located at the rear of the col- 
onnade which connects the Machinery Hall with the Agricultural Building, 
the large arch in the center of the colonnade being the main approach to 
this pavilion. The extreme measurements of the pavilion are 300x440 feet, 
it, therefore, covers an area of over three acres. The general arrangement 
of this magnificent pavilion is the same as the ever famous Colosseum at 
Rome, the architecture of the former being Romanesque and the latter 
purely classic of the Doric order. There is very little ornament on this build- 
ing save the balustrade which tops the cornice. The building is constructed 
of frame work covered with staff. The contracts were let for the entire 
building at $50,000. The seating capacity is 6,000. The center is used as 
a large arena for the purpose of parading live stock, and oq certain day§ 



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when not used for this purpose, will be used by the North-American Turner- 
Bund for exhibitions. Under the amphitheatre are the offices of the differ- 
ent bureaus pertaining to the department and also offices for the different 
live stock associations, the National Grange, the National Farmers' Alliance, 
etc. The Live Stock exhibit will open in June, with a kennel show, lasting 
six days, followed in August, September and October by the exhibition of 
horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, pigeons, etc. 

Horses and sheep will be shown from France, horses from Russia, 
sheep from Australia, and all kinds of live stock from Canada and nearly 
every state in the United States. 

The superintendent of the kennel division is James Mortimer, of Long 
Island; superintendent of sheep division, A. M. Garland, of Illinois; super- 
intendent of cattle division, J. B, Dinsmore, of Nebraska. Superintendents 
of the horse, poultry and swine divisions are yet to be appointed. 

The kennel exhibit begins June 12th and lasts six days. 

The exhibit of horses and cattle begins August 21st and lasts one 
month. 

The exhibit of sheep and swine begins September 25th and lasts till 
October 14th. 

The exhibit of poultry and fat stock begins October 16th and lasts till 
October 28th. 

Machinery. — The Machinery Building, or, as it is officially termed, the 
Palace of Mechanic Art, is located at the extreme south end of the park, 
midway between the shore of Lake Michigan and the west line of the park. 
It is just south of the Administration Building, and west and across a 
lagoon from the Agricultural Building. The main building of Machinery 
Hall is 850 feet long and 500 feet broad, and with the Machinery Annex 
and Power-house cost about $1,200,000. The building is spanned by three 
arched trusses, and the interior presents the appearance of three railroad 
train-houses side by side. These arched iron trusses are about fifty feet on 
centers, and the spans about 125 feet each. The naves are lighted and 
aired from above by large monitor roofs; in the center three domed roofs, 
each covering an open space 125 feet square, take the place of monitors. 
Outside of this immense three-naved room on the north, east and south 
runs a 50-foot wide two-story building. This opens directly into the main 
hall, both on the first floor, and on the second floor on the north and east 
fronts, forming a great gallery. 

There are two main entrances to Machinery Hall: One on the north 
facing Administration Building, and one on the east, facing Agricultural 
Hall. In each of the four corners of the building is a domed pavilion con- 
taining a grand staircase, and there are other staircases adjacent to the 
two grand staircases referred to. There are other entrances along the 
sides and ends of the main hall and annex, giving ample accomrnodatjor) 
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The Annex Building contains three naves and runs 550 feet to the 
westward, carrying out the long naves fornmed by the trusses in the main 
building. 

On the south of the main building, for its whole length, is a one-story 
structure, which contains the vast steam and electrical plant which supplies 
power and light to the whole of the Exposition buildings and grounds. 

The whole of Machinery Hall, throughout, rests upon planking and 
trestle-work foundations. Its frame is very largely of wood, but the main 
trusses spanning the buildings are of iron, and are of such width that they 
will be serviceable in the future in the construction of railroad train-houses. 
The main building and annex added together will give a perspective of 
nearly 1,400 feet in a straight line. In each of the naves an electric travel- 
ing-crane moves from one end to the other. These are used for installing 
and moving the machinery exhibits. Platforms have been built on these 
traveling cranes, and they are used to carry visitors. 

The exterior of the builning is covered with staff. In the figure and 
ornamental work every attempt has been made to indicate the purpose of 
the building, the statues representing mechanical forces, or carrying por- 
traits, or the names of inventors. 

Running the entire length of the main building and the annexes are 
three avenues or aisles, the center one twenty-five feet wide and the sides 
each fifteen feet in width. At the western extremity of these aisles enter 
the tracks of the auxiliary railroads for the conveyance of heavy machines 
to the first cross-aisle, from which the traveling cranes carry them. 

The comprehensive character of the display to be seen in this branch 
of the Exposition is apparent from the classification. Eleven groups, com- 
prising eighty-six classes, are devoted in the general classification to the 
department of machinery. Among these eighty-six classes are found 
almost every known mechanical device. 

Manufactures. — The Manufactures Building, lying to east of the 
grounds, is notable for its symmetrical proportions, and is the mammoth 
structure of the Exposition; indeed, it is the largest building in area ever 
erected on the western hemisphere and the largest under a roof in the 
whole world. Despite this fact, every foot of available space is taken, and 
it is even asserted by conservative judges that more t/ian double the space 
could have been assigJied to inost worthy exhibits, and even then the clamor 
for ''more rooin' would not have been wholly satisfied. The immensity of 
this building is alone intensely wonderful in its grandeur. It is three times 
larger than the Cathedral of St. Peter, in Rome, and four times larger than 
the old Roman Colosseum, which seated 80,000 persons. The central hall, 
which is a single room without a supporting pillar under its roof, has in its 
floor a fraction less than eleven acres, and the entire building could com- 
fortably seat 300,000 people. There are 7,000,000 feet of lumber in the floor, 
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to the joists. The exterior outline covers an area of nearly thirty-two 
acres, and, including galleries encircling the interior, affords in the aggre- 
gate forty-four acres of exhibiting space. This vast structure is covered 
with an arched roof of steel and glass, affording ample light and ventilation. 
It measures 1,687 by 787 feet. Height of walls, 66 feet. Height of four 
center pavilions,. 122 feet. Height of four corner pavilions, 97 feet. Height 
of roof over central hall, 237.6 feet. Height of roof-truss, over central hall, 
212.9 feet. , Height clear, from the floor, 202.9 feet. Span of truss, 382 feet. 




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Span in the clear, 354 feet. Width of truss at base, 14 feet; at hip, 32 feet; 
at apex, 10 feet. Weight of truss, 300,000 pounds; with purlines, 400,000 
pounds. Cost, $1,700,000. Material— 17,000,000 feet of lumber; 12,000,000 
pounds of steel in trusses of central hall; 2,000,000 pounds of iron in roof 
of nave. There are 11 acres of skylights and 40 carloads of glass in 
the roof. Within the building a gallery 50 feet wide extends around all 
four sides, and projecting from this are 86 smaller galleries, 12 feet wide, 
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scene below. The galleries are approached upon the main floor by 30 
great staircases, the flights of which are 12 feet wide each. "Columbia 
Avenue," 50 feet wide, extends through the mammoth building longitudin- 
ally, and an avenue of like width crosses it at right angles at the center 
The building is rectangular in form, and the interior is divided into a great 
central hall, 380 by 1,280 feet, which is surrounded by a nave 107 feet wide. 
It is in the Corinthian style of architecture, and in point of being severely 
classic excels nearly all of the other edifices. The long array of columns 
and arches, which its facades present, is relieved from monotony by very 
elaborate ornamentation. In this ornamentation female figures, symbolical 
of the various arts and sciences, play a conspicuous and very attractive 
part. The exterior of the building is covered with staff, which is treated to 
represent marble. There are four great entrances, one in the center of 
each facade. These are designed in the manner of triumphal arches, the 
central archway of each being 40 feet wide and 80 feet high. Surmounting 
these portals is the great attic story ornamented with sculptured eagles 18 
feet high, and on each side above the side arches are great panels with 
inscriptions, and the spandrils are filled with sculptured figures in bas- 
relief. At each corner of the main building are pavilions forming arched 
entrances, which are designed in harmony with the great portals. The 
building occupies a most conspicuous place on the grounds. It faces the 
lake, with only lawns and promenades between. North of it is the United 
States Government Building, south the Harbor, and in-jutting lagoon, and 
west the Electrical Building and the lagoon separating it from the island. 
This building is provided with 10,000 electric lights, and the aisles are 
lighted with ornamental lamp-posts bearing shielded arc lights. 

Mines and Mining. — The building over the portal of which is written 
"Mining" attracts marked attention. It is the first exposition building that 
has been distinctively devoted to this industry. Its walls contain the first 
separate and comprehensive mineral and metallurgical exhibit. It is one 
of the new developments and marvels of an Exposition that furnishes so 
many surprises and wonders. The positioh of this building is amidst the 
most beautiful of natural and architectural surroundings. It faces at the 
north the western and middle inland lakes and the flowers and lawns of the 
wooded island. It reflects on the west the gilded light of the Golden Door 
and the singularly handsome and unique high-color finish of the Moorish 
Palace for the transportation exhibits. It is flanked on the east by the tur- 
reted pavilions of Electricity. At the south looms the lofty and graceful 
dome of Administration. The architect has seized the inspiration of the 
theme, the occasion and a favored environment. Upon a great floor 700 
feet long by 350 feet wide and covering over five and a half acres, he has 
constructed a massive and solid structure, relieved and embellished 
with all the symmetrical and classic farms and jich ornamentations known 
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deeply recessed promenade on the gallery floor occupy the main fronts of 
the building. It is intersected at the center by an enormous arched 
entrance 56 feet high and 25 feet broad and at the corners ends in square 
pavilions surmounted by low domes. The loggia ceilings are heavily cof- 
fered and emblematical decorations are massed at the prominent points of 
the furnace. Its architecture, of early Italian renaissance, with a slight 
touch of French spirit, together with the enormous and floating banners, 




LOOKING WEST, SHOWING SOUTH END OF MANUFACTURES' BUILDING AND ELECTEICITY 
AND MINES BUILDINGS IN THE DISTANCE. 

invests the building with the animation that should characterize a great 
general Exposition. The interior design is of no less interest than the 
exterior. The roof rests upon ten great cantilever trusses so that the floor 
is practically unencumbered,, there being only two rows of iron columns on 
either side. This is the first instance of the application of the cantilever 
system to building and the result is a structure signally adapted to exhibi- 
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and 25 feet above the main floor extends entirely around the building and 
is well lighted by clearstory windows above. The repeated series of large 
arched windows along the walls and the extensive glass roof covering fur- 
nish abundance of light. The cost of the building was $250,000. 

Transportation Exhibits. — The Transportation Exhibits Buildings is 
unique in its architecture. Its gorgeous exterior decoration and its superb 
golden door will identify it at once. Its location on the western bank of 
the central lagoon, looking upon the wooded island, brings it directly in 
the highway of greatest travel. Its polychromatic front bears the names 
of illustrious railway and marine inventors and sculptured groups idealiz- 
ing the different forms of transportation. The north and south entrance 
are also elaborate and bear the individual statues of many of the men who 
brought these things to 
pass. A peculiar feature 
of the vast annex is the 
fact that it was found 
necessary to carry the 
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way over its roof; and 
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western corner of the 
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The main building 
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by 250 feet deep. From 
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Stony Island an enormous annex, covering about nine acres. This 
• is one story only in height. In it may be seen the more bulky exhibits. 
Along the central avenue or nave the visitor may see facing each 
other scores of locomotive engines, highly polished, and rendering the per- 
spective effect of the nave both exceedingly novel and striking. Add to the 
effect of the exhibits the architectural impression given by a long vista of 
richly ornamented colonnades, and it may easily be seen that the interior 
of the Transportation Building is one of the most impressive of the 
Exposition. The building is exquisitely refined and simple in architectural 
treatment, although very rich and elaborate in detail. In style it savors 
much of the Romanesque. 

The main entrance consists of an immense single arch, enriched to an 
extraordinary degree with carvings, bas-reliefs and mural paintings, the 
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treated in leaf, and is called the Golden Door. The remainder of the 
architectural composition falls into a just relation of contrast with the 
highly wrought entrance, and is duly quiet and modest, though very broad in 
treatment. It consists of a continuous arcade, with subordinated colonnade 
and entablature. Numerous minor entrances are from time to time 
pierced in the walls, and with them are grouped terraces, seats, drinking 
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The interior of the building is treated much after the manner of a 
Roman basilica, with broad nave and aisles. The roof is therefore in three 
divisions. The middle one rises much higher than the others, and its walls 
are pierced to form a beautiful arcaded clearstory. The cupola, placed in 
the center of the building and rising 165 feet above the ground, is reached 
by elevators. The total floor space is nearly twenty acres. A seventy- 
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main building. Railway tracks are laid in the annex at right angles to 
the transfer table. The heaviest locomotives and cars can be run direct 
from the installation track, which runs alongside the southern end of the 
building, upon the transfer table, which takes them to their proper tracks 
inside the building. The length of these tracks is such that an, entire train 
can be shown connected as when in actual use. The annex opens into the 
main building in such a manner as to afford long and striking vistas down 
the main avenues and aisles. The building is in the western part of the 
grounds near the Sixty-fourth street entrance. 

Woman's Building. — The Woman's Building is situated in the north- 
western part of the grounds, separated by a generous distance from the 
Horticultural Building on the one side and the Illinois State Building on 
the other, and facing the. great lagoon with the Flowery Island as a vista. 
Directly in front of the building the lagoon takes the form of a bay, about 
400 feet in width. From the center of this bay a grand landing and stair- 
case leads to a terrace six feet above the water. Crossing this terrace other 
staircases give access to the ground, four feet above, on which, about 100 
feet back, the building is situated. The first terrace is designed in artistic 
flower beds and low shrubs, forming, together with the creamy-white 
balustrades rising from the water's edge, and also in front of the second 
terrace, a charming foreground for the fine edifice. The principal facade 
has an extreme length of 400 feet, the depth of the building being half this 
distance. Italian renaissance is the style selected. The main grouping 
consists of a center pavilion flanked at each end with corner pavilions con- 
nected in the first story by open arcades in the curtains, forming a shady 
promenade the whole length of the structure. The first story is raised 
about ten feet from the ground line, and a wide staircase leads to the cen- 
ter pavilion. This pavilion, forming the main triple-arched entrance 
with an open colonnade in the second story is finished with a low and beauti- 
fully proportioned pediment enriched with a highly elaborate bas-relief. 
The corner pavilions, being like the rest of the building, two stories high, 
with a total elevation of 60 feet, have each an open colonnade added above 
the main cornice. Here are located the Hanging Gardens, and also the 
committee-rooms of the Board of Lady Managers. A lobby 40 feet wide 
opens into the open rotunda, 70x65 feet, reaching through the height of the 
building and protected by a richly ornamented skylight. This rotunda is 
surrounded by a two-story open arcade, as delicate and chaste in design as 
the exterior, the whole having a thoroughly Italian court-yard effect, admit- 
ting abundance of light to all rooms facing this interior space. In the 
second story, above the main entrance and curtains, are located ladies' par- 
lors, committee-rooms and dressing-rooms, all leading to the open balcony in 
front, and commanding a splendid panorama of almost the entire ground. 
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for the accommodation of speakers. The south pavihoii contains the 
model kitchen, refreshment rooms, reception-rooms, etc. 

Miscellaneous Buildings.— In addition to the above mentioned build- 
ings there have been erected for Exposition purposes the following: 
Photographic Building, Model Building, Silos, stock barns, perron and 
sheds, freight houses, stock ring, company's shops, company's barn, lank 
house, Service Building and entrances, fire and police stations, city police 
stations at Woodlawn and Hyde Park, sheds for empty cases, two chocolate 
pavilions, eight Indian houses, garbage crematory, Pennsylvania railroad 
exhibit. New York Central railroad exhibit, army hospital, besides numer- 
ous buildings and booths of concessionaries, and the structures on the Mid- 
way Plaisance, such as those of Algeria and Tunis, with many buildings; the 
Austrian village, about twenty buildings; captive balloon; Chinese village; 
Dahomey village; Diamond Match Company; Ferris wheel; German vil- 
lage, over thirty buildings; Hagenback's animal show; National Hungarian 
Orpheum; Irish industries; Irish village, nine structures; ice railway; 
Japanese bazaar; Libby Glass Company; lecture hall; Moorish palace; 
natatorium; National Dress and Costume Company; Persian concession- 
panorama of Bernese Alps; Panorama Kilauea; St. Peter's model; Venice 
and Murano; Vienna cafe; the Workman's home; South Sea Island vil- 
lage, etc. 




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STATE AND TERRITORIAL PARTICIPATION 



[For Classification of Exhibits, Plan of Installation, List of Exhibitors 
and Character of Collective State Exhibits in the Departmental Buildings, 
set Official Catalogues.] 

Alabama. — This State has no exhibit nor building. 

Alaska. — This Territorial exhibit is made by the Department of the 
Interior in the United States Government Building. 

Arkansas. — Northwest part of grounds immediately north of the Minne- 
sota Building and west of the North Dakota Building. Exhibits in building. 
The design of the Arkansas Building follows classic models, it being in the 




AKK.IJSSAS BUILDING. 

French " Rococo " style of architecture, as Arkansas was originally settled 
by the French. The exterior is in plaster and ornamental staff work, 
tinted in light color. The interior is tinted, and the ornamental work is 
brought out in gold. The building has a ground area of 66 by 92 feet. 
From a large circular veranda, which runs the width of the building, an 
elliptical entrance opeiis to the rotunda, 30 by 30 feet, lighted by a central 
dome. In the center of the rotunda is a fountain of Hot Springs crystals, 
lighted by electricity. Flanking the rotunda are six rooms, 15 feet square. 
Five of these are used as exhibit rooms, with the registry room on the 



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right of the entrance lobby. Opening from the rotunda, by triple arches, 
is the hallway, 11 by 55 feet, with the stairway on each side of the arched 
entrance. At the rear of the building is the assembly hall, 25 by 65 feet, 
which is entered from the hallway through triple arches. In this hall, 
opposite the entrance, is a 10-foot mantel, of Arkansas white onyx Col- 
umns and vases of the same material are placed iru various parts of the 
building. On the second floor are parlors for men and women, a library, 
committee and officers' rooms. All of these rooms open on a broad gal- 
lery, over the rotunda, lighted from the central dome. Designer, Mrs. 
Jean Douglas, of Little Rock; cost $15,000. 

California. ^Last building to the right from the Fifty-seventh street 
entrance. It lies west of the Indiana and Wisconsin buildings and south 
of the Colorado Building. Next to the IlHnois Building California's is the 
largest of the State buildings, a'nd cost $75,000. Its dimensions are 144x435 




feet, 
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CALIFOKXIA BUILDING. 

It is in the style of architecture of the old California mission build- 
The exterior is of plain plaster, artificially seamed and cracked, giv- 
ing it the appearance of the old mission buildings, while recessed entrances 
give the walls that appearance of depth and solidity characteristic of the 
old buildings. The south front is a reproduction of the old Mission church 
at San Diego. The main tower is an exact reproduction of the San Diego 
church tower, while the remaining towers on the corners and center of the 
building are all studied from the mission architecture. The building is not 
of the clubhouse character of most of the other State buildings. The entire 
first floor is open and is devoted to the California State display, principally 
of fruits and canned goods. There are three fountains on the ground floor; 
one in the center and one at either end. The central hall is surrounded by 
a wide gallery, and on the gallery floor on the north end of the building 



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is the banquet hali, a kitchen and an assembly-room. In the south end are 
four servants' rooms, and there is a cafe in the gallery. The building is 
severely plain, there being no interior or exterior decorations of any kind. 
The walls are whitewashed within and without. The central portion of the 
roof is devoted to a garden 144 feet square, surrounding the central dome. 
On either side of tho. main entrances are elevators running to the roof 
garden. These elevators are a California product, the power being a com- 
bination of steam and water. The roof is of California red tile. Exhibits 
are made m nearly all the departments by individuals, firms and corpora- 
tions, and the State makes exhibits in the Departments of Mines and Min- 
ing and Horticulture. 

Colorado. — Third building to the right from the Fifty-seventh street 
entrance. It lies south of the Washington Building, north of the California 
Building and west of the Michigan and Wisconsin buildings. It is in the 







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COLOKADO BUILDING. 

Spanish renaissance, this style of architecture being considered the most 
suitable for the Southwestern States. It cost $35,000. The whole exterior 
of the building is in staff of an ivory color, and in the salient features of 
the design profusely ornamented, the ornamentation comparing to fine 
advantage with the broad, plain surfaces of the building. The striking 
feature of the design is two slender Spanish towers, 98 feet high, rising from 
either side of the main entrance, on the east. The tower roofs and the broad, 
overhanging roof of the building are covered with red Spanish tiles. The 
building is 125 feet long, including the end porticos, with a depth of 45 feet 
and 26 feet to the cornice line. The front vestibule opens to the main hall 
of the building. On either side of the entrance are stairways to the floor 
above. At the rear of the hall is a large onyx mantel, flanked by glass 



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doors leading to offices. At the ends of the hall are a men's smoking room 
and a women's reception room, each opening into an uncovered terrace, 
surrounded by a balustrade. On the second floor is the assembly room 
extending the entire length of the building in the center. This room has 
a high vaulted ceiling, rising above an ornamented cornice. Over this 
cornice are rows of electric lights, giving a dififused light, by reflection 
from the vault above. On the ends of this assembly room are a reading 
and a writing room, which open to the hanging balconies on the ends of 
the building, forming one of the most attractive exterior features. Broad, 
low casement windows open from the assembly rooms to the front and rear 
balconies, the front one extending between the towers, 24 feet, and over 
the main entrance. The rear balcony extends along the entire length of 
the buildmg. Staircases lead to the lanterns in the tower, where a fine 
view of the grounds is had. State exhibits are made in the Departments 
of Mines and Mining and Horticulture, and exhibits by individuals, firms 
and corporations in nearly all the departments. 

Connecticut. — ^The Connecticut Building is in the extreme northeast 
part of the grounds. It lies south of the Iowa Building, east of New Jersey 




«. wA :\ ce i ic L r BUILDING. 

and Rhode Island buildings and north of Vermont's building. It is in the 
Colonial style, being a type of the Connecticut residence, with ^the addition 
of circular windows on the north and south, and a circular piazza on the 
rear. It has a ground area of 72x73 feet, including the piazza, and is two 
stories high. The exterior is weatherboarded and painted white. The 
roof contains five dormer windows and is decked on top. The deck is sur- 
rounded by a balustrade, and from its center rises a flagstaff. The main 
entrance is off a square porch, covered by the projecting pediment, which 



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is supported by heavy columns. The interior is finished in Colonial style, 
with tile floors, paneled walls ajid Dutch mantels. The plumbing and 
carpenters' hardware in the building are in special designs, and are 
donated as exhibits by Connecticut manufacturers. On the first floor is a 
reception hall, 21x48 feet, with a light-well in the center. In the rear of 
the wall is a stairway with a landing half-way up. Flanking the hall are 
parlors for men and women. The second floor is divided up into living 
rooms, and will be occupied by the executive Word's Fair officer of Con- 
necticut and his family during the Fair. The building cost 815,000. State 
exhibits are made in the Departments of Agriculture and Mines and Min- 
ing. Colonial articles are shown in the State building, which is furnished 
throughout with the quaint relics of a hundred years ago. The educational 
exhibit, which includes that of Yale University, is one of the features of the 
Department of Liberal Arts. 

Delaware. — The Delaware Building is immediately north of that of 
New York. It is constructed wholly of native woods and materials from 




DELAWARE BUILDING. 

the State, is 58x60 feet, and is very picturesque, elaborately furnished, and 
cost $8,000. One room in the building is finished in Colonial style, with 
hangings and furniture representing the Colonial days. It is very inter- 
esting, there being figures in clay of the old Swedes' church at Wilming- 
ton, Barratt's Chapel and Christ Church. Christ Church was built more 
than 100 years ago, of heart pine. It is without a particle of paint, and ha 
the high-backed pews, the chancel at one end, the servants' gallery at the 
opposite end, midway on the east side the lofty pulpit, and immediately 
below the reading desk and the clerk's desk. The little State of Delaware 
was one of the first to show its loyal adherence to the Exposition. The 
first donation was $10,000, followed later by a further sum of $15,000= 



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Florida. — The Florida Building lies immediately north of that of Mis- 
souri, which is the fourth structure on the upper part of the roadway on 
entering the grounds at Fifty-seventh 'street. A miniature of old Fort 
Marion, in St. Augustine, has been reproduced in the Florida Building. 
The fort covers an area of one acre, and is, perhaps, the oldest structure in 
North America, the most interesting specimen of Spaniah supremacy in 
this country, an(^ the only example of mediaeval fortitication on the conti- 
nent. Its erection was begun in 1620 and continued for 100 years. To equip 
it as a garrison required 100 guns and 1,000 men. It was never taken by a 
beseiging force. The State building occupies one-fifth of the space of P'ort 
Marion. It is in the form of a four-bastioned fortress. Including the 
moat, the site is 155 feet square. The building proper is 187 feet square. 
The frame fs of pine, covered wnth plaster and coquina shells, in imitation 





FLOKIDA BUILDING. 

of the original. The interior is divided into parlors for men and women, 
committee and exhibit rooms, and is finished in Florida's native woods. 
The interior court is planted in bamboo, orange, lemon and other tropical 
trees. The ramparts furnish space for promenades and hanging gardens. 
In the moat is a sunken garden, where are produced miniature fields of 
cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, etc., showing the natural resources of the State. 
The cost of the structure is 820,000. The State makes an exhibit in the 
Departmentf of Mines and Mining and Horticulture. 

Georgia.— The Georgia Legislature failed to make an appropriation, 
consequently that State has no building nor official exhibit. 

Idaho. — The Idaho Building is in the extreme upper end of the grounds. 
It lies west of the Virginia Building, and east of Montana's. In designing 
and decorating the building an effort was made to give some expression to 



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the characteristics above referred to, to exemplify in a .neasure some of 
the chief products of the State, and to suggest some of its interesting 
features. All of the materials used m the construction of the building are 
products of Idaho, and nearly all of the decorations were there obtained. 
The general style of architecture is Swiss, modified in so far as was neces- 
sary to adapt it to the materials to be used in the construction and to illus- 
trate local conditions. The building, the foundation of which is of basaltic 
rock and lava, is a three-story log cabin made of stripped cedar logs, 
stained to the appearance of weather-beaten age. It is generously supplied 
with Swiss balconies averaging ten feet in width, which extend around 
three sides of the structure on the second floor, and across the front and 
rear of the third floor. The roof extends on all sides ten feet beyond the 
building line, and is covered with shakes held in place by rocks, while the 
chimneys are large and roughly stuccoed to imitate in appearance the 




chimneys of real pioneer days. The outside dimensions of the building, 
including balconies and roof, are 70x90; the foundation, 53x93. One enters 
the building through a stone arch, into a passage way, 10x35, leading to a 
large central hall, 16x34, at the end of which is a stone fire-place with log 
mantel. The remainder of this floor is divided into two offices, 14x16, two 
sleeping apartments, 15x16, and two toilet rooms. 22x26. From the central 
hall one proceeds by a stairway, on either side of the fire-place, to the upper 
hall, 18x48>^, opening into which from the front is the women's reception 
room, 24ixiS}4, representing a miner's cabin, the fire-place of which is made 
of metaliferous rock, and the andirons, door latches, etc., are made in im- 
itation of miner's tools. At the rear of the hall is the men's reception room, 
27x48^, a hunter's and trapper's cabin, the fire-place of which is of Idaho 



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lava, the andirons made of Dear traps and fish spears, the other hardware 
therein representing Indian weapons, arrows, etc. The entire third floor is 
one large hall, 48>^x50>^, intended for special receptions, and contains such 
articles as ornament the room as well as represent interesting features of 
the State. After the close of the Exposition the building is to be removed 
to England, where it is to be used as a shooting-box, it having been pur- 
chased by an English club. The State makes exhibits in the Departments 
of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Mines and Mining. 

Illinois.- — The Illinois Building lies to the southwest of the North Pond, 
north of the upper lagoon, and is readily distinguished by its large size and 
the dome which surmounts it. It is situated on a high terrace, in one of the 
most favored spots in Jackson Park, and commands, for nearly a mile to 
the southward, a view of the beautiful waterway which encircles the great 
island. The building in the main is 160 feet wide by 450 feet long. On the 

north. Memorial Hall 
forms a wing 50 by 75 
feet, and on the south 
another wing, 75 by 123 
feet and three stories 
high, accommodates the 
executive officers, and in 
the third story two public 
halls. The side walls 
are 47 feet high, while the 
south wing is 72 feet and 
the ends 54 feet. Sur- 
mounting the building at 
the center a fine dome, 
72 feet in diameter, rises 
to a height of 235 feet. 
The building is con- 
structed almost wholly 
of Illinois material, wood, 
stone, brick and steel, and is covered with staff artistically treated. 
The grand entrance faces the waterway to the south, while at the west and 
north ends are others scarcely less imposing. In front of the entrances are 
beautiful terraces with balustrades, statues, fountains, flowers, and stone 
steps leading down to the roadways and lagoon landings. The building is 
embellished with fine carving and statuary. It is thoroughly lighted, first 
from the side windows, which are placed about fourteen feet above the floor 
to permit cases to be placed agninst the walls; second, with skylights 
placed in the flat roof of the side aisles; and third, with continuous sky- 
lights on the ridge of a pitched roof or nave. Ventilation is provided for 
through windows placed a story above the flat aisle roof and the foot of the 
sloping roof over the nave. The interior of the structure is appropriately 




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and beautifully ornamented. Memorial Hall, which is fireproof, has a gal- 
lery encircling it, and contains a large and interesting collection of relics 
and trophies of the war and other periods — all owned by the State. There 
are also spacious galleries from which an excellent survey of the main 
exhibit hall may be taken. One feature of the Illinois Building consists of 
five model common-school rooms, of high grade, fully equipped and fur- 
nished, under the direction of the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion. Here may be seen an illustration of the methods and results of 
educational work as pursued in the normal universities, the public, techni- 
cal and art schools, and the high schools of the State; an exhibit by the 
University of Illinois of the equipment, methods of instruction and achieve- 
ments of that institution in its several departments, and an exhibit of the 
educational and industrial work as conducted in the State charitable insti- 
tutions. There are no competitive exhibits in the Illinois Building. These 




ILLINOIS BUILDING. 



are distributed in their proper places in the several Exposition structures. 
The Illinois Building contains a "collective departmental exhibit for the 
State, which shall illustrate its natural resources, together with the methods 
employed and results accomplished by the State in its municipal capacity 
through its several departments, boards, commissions, bureaus and other 
agencies in the work of promoting the moral, educational and material wel- 
fare of its inhabitants so far as such methods and results are susceptible of 
exhibition." There are also collections, correctly classified and labeled, 
illustrating the natural history and archaeology of the State; an exhibition 
by the State Fish Commission of native and cultivated live fish, with 
hatchery and appliances and equipments for transportation, models of fish- 
ways in use; a special collection of the cultivated products in the several 



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branches of agriculture; architectural drawings (with elevations) of every 
public building erected and now used or maintained in whole or in part by 
the State; also maps, charts, diagrams and tables conveying full and accu- 
rate information relative to Illinois and its resources. The topographical 
maps of the State are sure to claim much attention. To the women of 
Illinois was granted $80,000, or one-tenth of the entire appropriation, and 
also one-tenth of the space in the building. The State appropriated $800,- 
000 and the building cost $250,000. The exhibits are made principally 
within the building. The State exhibits are also in the Departments of 
Agriculture and Horticulture, and while exhibits of individuals, firms and 
corporations are made in nearly all of the departments. 

Indiana. — The Indiana Building is one of the most attractive, conven- 
ient and comfortable of all the State buildings. In the matter of space, 
Indiana has secured good sized sections in all the main buildings. It is 




INDIANA BUibUliNu. 



situated north of the Woman's Building and next to the building of Wis- 
consin. It is French Gothic in design with cathedral windows, turrets and 
towers. Two large towers with spires, one at either side raising above 
the roof of the extreme point, are about 150 feet from the ground. The 
dimensions, including a veranda 20 feet wide with two floors extending en- 
tirely around the building, are 53x152 feet; height three stories and general 
appearance very massive. The towers are constructed of Colitic limestone 
brought from the Indiana quarries. The building is covered with staff. 
The entrance steps, balustrades and doorways are of handsome carved pat- 
terns of stone and make a fine display. The lower story floor is encaustic 
tile of handsome pattern. Broad carved oak stairways lead from the lower 
floor into the towers of the building. The entire finish and the doors are uf 



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native quartered oak, carved and highly polished. On the first and second 
floors a wide hall extends through from one tower to the other, separating 
the office, parlors, reception and toilet rooms from the assembly room on 
the first floor, and the reading and writing room on the second floor, from 
the ladies' parlors, reception and toilet rooms in the north part of the 
building. On the ground floor is a parlor for women, with check and toilet 
rooms; a parlor for men, v. ith check and toilet rooms. The assembly room 
on the lower floor is in the form of a half circle, or an immense bay win- 
dow, and is used for the general reception room. On the second floor is a 
reading and writing room for the use of the general public, the women's 
private office and reception room, the office of the president, the State 
board and the executive commissioner. On the third story, over the main 
assembly Yoom, is a large room suitable for a lunch room. The building 
cost $65,000. The State paid upon it about $50,000. The balance was raised 
by contributions throughout the State in the way of material in construc- 
tion and was solicited and obtained through the efforts of executive com- 
missioner Havens. Chicago parties have been quite liberal in this matter 
and have donated material to the amount of $2,500. The balance of the 
contributions were raised in the State of Indiana. Exhibits are to be found 
in the Departments of Agriculture and Mines and Mining. 

lo-wa. — The Iowa Building is in the extreme northeast corner of the 
grounds. It is undoubtedly one of the handsomest of the State buildings. 




IOWA BUILDING. 

and the decorations of the ceiling and walls of the main hall in corn and 
grasses is one of the most unique and attractive pieces of art work on the 
grounds. Scenes emblematic of agricultural, pastoral, mining and other 
pursuits, are faithfully portrayed and are similar to those shown in the 



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famous Corn Palace exhibitions in Sioux City. The structure is on the 
west side of the "Jackson Park Shelter " which belongs to the Park Com- 
missioners, and serves as a receptacle for the State exhibit. The Iowa 
Building is 60x100 feet. in size and two stories high. It is in wood and staff, 
with towers and roof corresponding to the " Shelter," so that the two struct- 
ures combine harmoniously after the style of a French chateau, forming a 
very picturesque effect. On the first floor are found reception rooms for 
men and women, commissioners' offices, committee rooms, postofifice, writ- 
ing and baggage rooms. On the second floor are the assembly hall, photo- 
graphic exhibit, reading and reporters' rooms. The building cost $35,000. 
The State makes exhibits also in the Departments of Agriculture and Mines 
and Mining. 

Kansas.— The Kansas Building is in the extreme northwest corner of 
the grounds and lies to the east of the Esquimau Village. The ground 




KANSAS BUILDING. 

plan of the building is irregular. It approches a square, one side being 
straight, and the other three forming irregular angles. It has a ground area 
of 135x138 feet. It is two stories high, built of frame and staff, and is sur- 
mounted by an elliptical glass dome. The main exhibition hall occupies 
nearly all of the first floor, and extends through to the glass dome. A bal- 
cony, from the second story, overhangs the main entrance on the south, and 
a second balcony extends around the base of the dome. The north end of 
the main floor is occupied by a natural history collection. There are also 
offices for the boards of commissioners on the first floor. Four flights of 
stairs lead to the second floor, where are rooms for the women's exhibits, a 
school exhibit, and parlors for the men and women. The building cost 
$25,000. 



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Kentucky. — The Kentucky Building lies between those of Florida and 
Texas and is the second building north of that of Missouri, which is the 
fourth structure on the upper side of the roadway leading from the Fifty- 
seventh street entrance. The building is typical of the southern colonial 
style, as distinguished from the New England, and suggests the better class 
of old Kentucky homesteads. The size of the building, exclusive of porches, 
is 75x90 feet, and in the center of the principal facade, under the covered 
porch, is the main entrance. To the left-hand side of the entrance, com- 
municating with the lobby, is the parcel and check room and postofifice, 
while directly opposite is the ofifice of the secretary, in connection with 
which is a smaller room used as an information bureau. The lobby opens 
on the great hall 35x40 feet in size, at the end of which is a wide stairway 
leading up to the second-story gallery. Under the wide platform in the 
center of the hall is the entrance to the dining-room. This platform is 




KENTUCKY BUILDING. 

located midway between the two stories, and the greater part of this hall 
extends to the roof, with galleries around the second-story overlooking the 
first. On the left-hand side of the hall in a recess is placed the great hall 
fireplace. The mantel is 14 feet wide and the fireplace opening itself 8 feet, 
where great yule logs may be burnt. The ladies' parlors are on the left- 
hand side of the building, opening into the reception hall. The principal 
parlor is 20x36 feet, and communicates with the check-room and postoffice. 
On the right-hand side of the hall opposite the ladies' quarters are the 
gentlemen's parlors, the same size as the ladies' parlors, with a smoking 
room attached. Adjoining the main hall and smoking-room is a side en- 
trance hall, upon which the men's toilet room opens. The dining hall is 
20x40 feet, abundantly lighted and with a deeply recessed alcove for the 
^replace, immediately opposite the entrance to the hall. This dining-room 



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communicates with the necessary serving-rooms, store-room, kitchen and 
servants' bed-rooms. The second floor is a gallery, 8 feet wide, around three 
sides of the open light-well, which extends from the first floor to the top of 
the building, where it is roofed over with an obscured glass ceiling or sky- 
light. Extending across the entire front of the building, and opening on 
the wide gallery, are arranged three exhibition rooms, two of which are 
20x27 feet, and the third 20x23 feet. On the right-hand side, on this floor is the 
commissioners' room communicating with the main gallery, and also a pri- 
vate hall and stairway leading to the first floor. With this hall are con- 
nected two sleeping rooms and bath rooms, for the use of the commissioners. 
On the opposite side of the building is the lady commissioners' committee 
room, and also a store-room, where packing cases, chairs, etc., can be stored. 
The three exhibition rooms are arranged so that they can be thrown 
together and form an assembly room. The interior is furnished in white 
or old ivory. The structure cost 818,000. Exhibits are made in the Depart- 
ments of Agriculture, Mines and Mining and Horticulture. 

Louisiana. — The Louisiana Building is the third structure on the 
upper side of the roadway leading from the Fifty-seventh street entrance. 




LOUISIANA BUILDING. 

It is in the Colonial style and is an imitation of the old-fashioned Creole 
homes of the Pelican State. It has a frontage of 66 feet, depth of 56 feet, 
is two stories high with piazzas to both floors on parts of three sides. The 
first story is 14 feet in the clear, second story 13 feet. The building is 
finished in natural woods— principally cypress and white pine. The in- 
terior contains on the ground floor a large hall, off which is ranged recep- 
tion rooms, dining room and smoking room. The second story contains a 
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and ladies' parlor. Retiring rooms ana j>avatories have beeli provided on 
both floors. Exhibits are made in the Departments of Agriculture and 
Mines and Mining, besides' displays are made in the State Building. 

Maine. — The Maine Building is the exreme eastern structure on the 
upper side of the roadway leading from the Fifty-seventh street entrance. 
It is octagonal in form, with a ground area of 65 feet square. It is two 
stories in height, the roof surmounted by a lantern in the center, and four 
corner towers. The first story is of granite. The exterior finish of the rest 
of the building is in wood and staff. The roof is of slate. The central 
tower or lantern is 86 feet to its highest point. While the first story is 
octagonal in form, the second story presents but four sides, each with a 
loggia opening to the rooms within. The second-story floor overhangs the 
first story one foot. The main entrance of these arched doorways faces 
the southeast. Over it projects a boat's bow, in staff. Within the en- 




MAINE BUILDING. 



trance is an octagonal rotunda, open to the roof line, its ceiling being an 
ornamental colored skylight. On the first floor entrance is had to the fine 
parlors and reception rooms, designed for men and women, toilet rooms, 
and two commissioners' rooms. A railed gallery extends entirely around 
the rotunda, which gives a complete view of the building to the visitors. 
The interior finishing is very handsome, being done in hardwood. The 
granite and roof slate used in construction, the skylight in the rotunda, and 
the mantels over the fire-places are all the products of the State of Maine, 
and are donated by manufacturers. The building cost $20,000. Exhibits 
are made in the Departments of Agriculture and Mines and Mining. 



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Maryland. — The Maryland Building is the second one north of that 
of New York, and opposite the Virginia Building. It is a handsome 
structure and is divided into reception hall, ladies' toilet, ladies' exhibition 
hall, women's department, bureau of information and main exhibition hall, 
besides spacious porches on the first floor. Gents' toilet, office, smoking 




MARYLAND BUILDING. 

room, reading room and three parlors which communicate constitute the 
second floor, and a gallery overlooking the main exhibition hall is entered 
from this floor. The flat deck roofs of porches and buildings offer fine points 
of vantage for overlooking the grounds. 

Massachusetts. — The Massachusetts Building is the first one east 
of that of New York and is the seventh of the State buildings on the upper 
side of the roadway leading from the Fifty-seventh street entrance. It is 
in the Colonial style, and is largely a reproduction of the historic John 
Hancock residence, which, until the year 1867, stood on Beacon Hill, Bos- 
ton, near the State capitol. The building is three stories high, surmounted 
in the center by a cupola. The exterior is of staff, in imitation of cut gran- 
ite. It follows the lines of the old house sufficiently faithful to recall the 
original to the minds of those who have seen it. Like the original, it is 
surrounded by a terrace, raised above the street, and has in front and on 
one side a fore-court, filled with old-fashioned flowers and foliage, in keep- 
ing with the character of the building. It is approached by two flights of 
steps — one leading from the street to the terrace, the other from the court 
to the house. The main entrance opens to a spacious, well-studded hallway 
with a tiled floor. Facing the entrance is a broad. Colonial staircase, lead- 
ing to the second floor. An old-fashioned bull's-eye window gives light to 

the stairway. On the right of the hall is a large room, constituting a regis- 
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tration room, postoffice and general reception room. The fittings and fur- 
nishings of this room are unique. Its marble floor, its tiled walls, its uncov- 
ered beams, and its high mantel recall the old Dutch rooms found in West- 
ern Massachusetts, as well as in New York and Pennsylvania. On the left 
of the front door, or main entrance, aretwolargeparlors, which when thrown 
together, form a room 80 by 25 feet in size. The front parlor is furnished 
by the Essex Institute, of Salem, an old historical society. The back par- 
lor is more especially a reading room for men. The second floor is given 
over almost entirely to the use of women. There is a large and a smaller 
parlor, and two bedrooms for the use of the women's board. The entire 
floor is furnished in old-fashioned furniture, and in the bedrooms are four- 
post bedsteads. On the third floor are rooms for servants. A liberty pole, 
85 feet high, stands in the fore-court, and a gilded codfish serves as a vane 
on the top of the cupola. The building cost $50,000. Exhibits are made in 




MASSACIirSETTS BUILDING. 

the. departments of Mines and Mining, and Agriculture and by individuals 
and firms in nearly all the other departmental buildings. 

Michigan. — The Michigan Building lies to right on entering at Fifty- 
seventh street. It is opposite the Colorado Building. It is 100x140 feet; 
is three stories high and has a square shaped tower in the front center with 
an observatory on the top. A long gallery extends clear across the front. 
On the first floor are the administration offices, reception rooms, reading 
rooms, and ladies' parlors. On the second floor are two large exhibition 
halls for Michigan relics, and native curiosities, assembly halls, and a room 
for board meetings. On the third floor are the living rooms for the secre- 
tary of the State and his family, and employes of the State commission. 
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Michigan appropriated $20,000 for their State Exposition Building, but most 
of the materials were contributed so that the structure as it stands repre- 




MICHIGAN BUILDING. 

sents an outlay of $50,000. The prominent features of the exhibition are 
fruits, agricultural products, iron, copper, salt and other minerals, lumber, 
fish, furniture and other manufactures, and education. 

Minnesota. — The Minnesota Building is the second one to greet the 
eye looking to the left on entering at Fifty-seventh street. It is designed in 




MINNESOTA BUILDING. 

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rear. The frame is of wood, covered with staff. The roof is of Spanish 
tile. The ground dimensions are 78x91 feet. The main entrance is on 
the south. In the recess within the entrance is a sculptural group, symbol- 
izing the legend of Minnehaha and Hiawatha. On the first floor is the ex- 
hibition hall, 52x78 feet, a postoffice, baggage and ticket rooms, and super- 
intendent's room. The main stairway is in the rear, opposite the entrance, 
and on the landing, half-way up, is a semi-circular bay alcove, lighted with 
large glass windows. On the second floor is a reception hall, 30x33 feet, 
parlors and retiring rooms for men and women, and a committee room. In 
the mezzanine story are four bedrooms and two bath-rooms. The interior 
walls are plastered, decorated in fresco, in plain tints, and finished in pine. 
The women's rooms have color decorations done by women of the State. 
The building cost $30,000. Exhibits are made in the Departments of Horti- 
culture, Agriculture and Mines and Mining. 

Mississippi. — -The Mississippi Legislature refused to pass an appro- 
priation bill, hence that State has no building. 

Missouri. — The Missouri Building is the fourth structure on the upper 
side of the roadway leading from the Fifty-seventh street entrance. It is 




MISSOUEI BUILDING. 

square, with a quarter circle taken out of the southeast corner, to corres- 
pond with the form of the juncture of the two avenues on which it faces. 
To the south is the Art Building, and to the east, across the avenue, is 
Pennsylvania's building. The building is 86x86 feet, two stories high. In 
the front, and over the main entrance, is an eliptical dome, 70 feet high, 
flanked by smaller octagonal domes, 48 feet high. The main entrance, 
which is in the southeast corner of the building, facing both avenues, is of 
cut brown stone from the quarries of Warrensburg, Mo. The balance of 
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are of the same material. Within the main entrance is a rotunda, with a 
mosaic tile floor. On either side of the main entrance are minor entrances, 
the one on the left leading to the headquarters of Western Missouri nnd 
Kansas City, and the one on the right leading to the headquarters of East- 
ern Missouri and St. Louis. Within the rotunda are the telegraph office 
and the postoffice, occupying the space under the octagonal dome. On 
either side of the rotunda is a fountain. On the left of the rotunda are two 
exhibit rooms, 30x20 feet and 28x17 feet. On the right is a journalists' room, 
a reading-room, a library, and a bureau of information. Entrance is had 
to the rotunda from all of these rooms by tiled halls. Two flights of stairs, 
very handsome, in red and white oak, lead to the second floor. A prome- 
nade balcony with a marble floor overhangs the main entrance. A large 
auditorium room, irregular in shape, occupies the center and larger portion 
of the second floor. The southeast bay is occupied by a parlor and read- 
ing-room for women, the southwest bay by a similar room for men. There 
are toilet-rooms, and a committee-room, and a special room for the Gov- 
ernor of Missouri. On the balcony floor are six bed-rooms, three in each 
bay, and a kitchen. The building contains thirty-two rooms. It is very 
handsome, and richly ornamented. The glass is all plate. This plate 
glass, as well as the tile for the roof and flooring, the plumbing, and the 
cut stone, is donated by Missouri manufacturers. The building cost $45,000. 
Exhibits are made in the Departments of Horticulture, Agriculture and 
Mines and Mining. 

Montana. — The Montana Building is in the north end of the grounds, 
and lies between the buildings of Utah and Idaho. It is in the Roman- 



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MONTANA BUILDING. 

esque style of architecture, one story in height, and cost $16,000. It has a 
ground area of 62 feet front by 113 deep. The structure is frame, covered 
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with Roman caps and bases and Roman arches. The roof is of tin and can- 
vas, and the building is surmounted by a glass dome 22 feet in diameter and 
38 feet high. The front of the building, facing the south, presents two 
side wings, with a large arched entrance in the center. The fronts of the 
wings are ornamented with heavy, scrolled pediments. The entrance arch 
is 12x12 feet, supported by heavy columns. Within is the vestibule, with 
marble floor and ceiling paneled in staff. It presents a series of three 
arched doorways, the center one opening into the rotunda under the dome 
the side doors leading to the men's and women's parlors. On either side of 
the arched entrance arch are balustrades, enclosing the vestibule. Flank- 
ing the arch are two panels, 4x5 feet in size, one bearing the State motto, 
"Oro y Plata" — gold and silver — and the other, "1893," in Roman fiures. 
These panels are in pure sheet gold. Above the entrance arch, and prac- 
tically on the roof of the building, is the figure of an elk, of heroic size, 
cast in staff. The interior of the building is finished in Georgia pine. 
The walls are tinted in oil. All the main rooms open onto the rotunda, 
under the central dome. In the rear is the banquet hall, 40x50 feet 
covered by a large skylight. In the center of this floor stands a group of 
three mounted elks. A wide gallery extends around the hall, and in the 
gallery the State exhibit is made. A life-size statue of Miss Ada Rehan, 
the well-known American actress, cast in solid siver and resting on a 
pedestal of gold (from Montana mines), is one of the interesting exhibits 
made by the State. Exhibits are also made in the Departments of Agri- 
culture and Mines and Mining. 

Nebraska. — The Nebraska Building is the first structure to the left 
after crossing the bridge over the roadway leading from the Fifty-seventh 




NEBKASKA BUli-,DI>0. 

Street entrance. It is classical, and of the Corinthian order. The build- 
ing has a ground area of 60x100 feet, and is two stories high. The exterior 



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is of staff. On the east and west fronts are wide porticos, approached by 
flights of steps. Over the porticos are projecting gables, supported by six 
columns, twenty-five feet high, the full distance from the cornice to the 
floor. In each pediment is the State seal, in bas-relief, five feet in diame- 
ter. From each portico three large double doors of oak give entrance to 
the exhibit hall. The room is 60x70 feet, and in it an agricultural display 
is made. On the first floor, also, are a reception room and a commission- 
ers' office, baggage room and postoffice. A double stairway, nine feet 
wide, leads from the center of the exhibit hall to the second floor. Here 
is an exhibit room, 60x70 feet, used for an art exhibit. On this floor are a 
women's parlor, reading room, smoking room and toilet rooms. The build- 
ing cost $20,000. 

Nevada. — The Nevada Legislature made an appropriation of $10,000, 
which has been expended in making a complete showing of that State's 
mineral and agricultural resources. The former may be seen in the Mines 
and Mining Building and the latter in the Agricultural Building. The 
world-renowned, the pre-historic foot-prints, fossils, etc., which were re- 
moved from the floors of the quarry at the Nevada State prison at Carson 
are also shown. These prints and fossils, etc., will undoubtedly prove 
most valuable to the scientific world. This is the first time the originals 
were ever removed, numerous museums, in different parts of the world 
having them in plaster casts; but they are shown in the Department of 
Mines and Mining and consists of footprints, fossils, bones, teeth, etc., of a 
very remote period. They were taken from a depth of thirty-four feet from 
the surface of the quarry, of the State prison at Carson. 

New Hampshire. — The New Hampshire Building is in the northeast- 




NEW HAMrSIIIRE BUILDING. 



ern part of the grounds, and lies between the buildings of Connecticut and 
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and it is two stories in height. The pitched, shingle roof is broken by five 
gables. The exterior is weatherboarded in stained Georgia pine above a 
line seven feet from the ground. This first seven-foot course is in New 
Hampshire granite. Each of the two stories is surrounded on all sides by a 
wide piazza. The rooms on the second floor open to the piazza through 
hinged windows opening to the floor. The entrance is on the east, facing 
the drive on Lake Michigan. On the first floor is a reception hall, 22x36 
feet. It has two unique fire-places in pressed granite brick. To the rear 
of the hall is a wing of the main building, two stories high, the second story 
being a wide balcony or gallery to the main floor. The roof is a glass sky- 
light. A State exhibit, a picture collection, and a large State map are 
shown here. Beside the reception hall on the first floor there are parlors 
for men and women. These rooms are ceiled, while the reception hall 
opens to the roof and is covered with a skylight. The second floor has a 
reception room and six board and committee rooms. The building cost 
$8,000. Exhibits are made in the Departments of Agriculture and Mines 
and Mining. 

New Jersey.— Those familiar with the appearance of the Washington 
headquarters in Morristown, N. J., will recognize in New Jersey's building 




NEW JERSEY BUILDING. 

the nucleus of the general hnes and details of that historic structure. The 
interest of the Morristown building is no doubt somewhat shared in by the 
New Jersey Building, and it seems that the State has done well in selecting 
the old headquarters as a starting point for the design, when it is remem- 
bered that under the roof of the old Morristown house more of the noted 
characters of the Revolution have gathered than under any other roof in 
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the winter of 1779 and '80, and Alexander Hamilton lived there during the 
same long winter, and there " he met and courted the lady he afterward 
married, the daughter of General Schuyler." Celebrated men, including 
Green, Knox, Lafayette, Steuben, Kosciusko, Schuyler, " Light Horse " 
Harry Lee, old Israel Putman, " Mad Anthony " Wayne, and " that brave 
soldier but rank traitor, Benedict Arnold," have all been beneath its roof. 
This building is used as the headquarters of New Jersey commissioners, 
and is a place where every New Jerseyman and his family is made to feel 
at home, where he can meet his friends, can register h a dress and re- 
ceive his letters. It is, in fact, a part of his own State transported to the 
Exposition grounds. The site of the building is centrally located among 
those of the States of New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con- 
necticut. The building is not intended for exhibition purposes, but is more 
in the nature of a club-house for the use and convenience of all Jersey 
people. There are large and inviting piazzas on the front and rear. The 
main entrance opens into a large general assembly hall, two stories high, 
with a circular balcony looking down from the second story. This hall 
contains the postoffice and the hat and cloak counter, a large open fire- 
place, nearly ten feet across, and the main staircase, this latter being made 
a feature of the design. On the right hand side of the building are located 
the rooms set apart especially for the ladies; these consist of the general 
meeting room of the Lady Board of Managers, two parlors on the second 
floor, with lavatories and bath-rooms. On the left hand side of the build- 
ing are the rooms set apart for gentlemen, the secretary's office, board 
room, president's room, committee rooms and lavatories. In the third 
story are the care-takers' apartments and store-rooms for documents, etc. 
The building is principally of frame construction, covered with clapboards 
and with some of the ornamental portions in staff. The roof is shingled. 
The dimensions of the main building are 51 feet long, 31 feet deep and 37 
feet high to the ridge. Each wing is 16 feet front, 21 feet deep and 
30 feet high. The piazzas, in front and rear, are each 68 feet long by 16 
feet wide (at the widest part). The area covered, including piazzas, is 
3,949 square feet. The general style of the building is Colonial. The cost 
is $18,000. Considerable of the materal was donated by manufacturers in 
the State. Exhibits are made in nearly all the departments. 

New York. — The New York Building is the sixth structure on the 
upper side of the roadway leading from the Fifty-seventh street entrance. 
It ranks in size next to that of Illinois and California. It cost $150,000. 
The architectural idea in the building is that of a big summer house. It is 
three stories high, being 57 feet from the ground to the cornice. The ex- 
terior is in staff, in imitation of marble, and in keeping with the style of 
the main Exposition buildings. Its decked roof is surmounted and con- 
fined by a heavy balustrade. Each pedestal of the balustrade supports a 
large Italian vase, in which grows a bay-tree, giving the building, together 
with its other characteristics, the air of a Pompeiian house. The flat, 



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decked roof furnishes a promenade and summer garden. From its center 
rises a clear-story over the banquet hall, and above the clear-story are two 
belvideres. On the north and south ends of the building are circular por- 
ticoes, in each of which is a fountain. The general dimensions are 160 feet 
front by 105 feet deep. A broad flight of steps, guarded by Roman lions, 
leads to the arched entrance. About this entrance is concentrated all the 
exterior ornamentation of the building. It is in the style of the Italian 
renaissance, a villa in charater, rectangular in form, approached on the 
south by a flight of fourteen steps, 46 feet wide, giving access to a grand 
terrace, 15x80 feet, from which the loggia, or open vestibule, 46x17 feet, 6 
inches, is reached. Partaking of the domestic as well as the palatial style, 
the building is not only the headquarters of New York people at the Ex- 
position, but also a most comfortable place for the reception and enter- 
tainment of distinguished foreign guests. The semi-circular porticoes, east 




NEW YOKK BUILDING. 

and west, have a diameter of 50 feet in the form of an exedra, and the un- 
covered portion, furnished with the fountain, is a unique feature of the 
building. It is proposed to place a bust of Washington upon the key 
block over the main entraince, and at either side of those of the first and 
present governors of the State. The main floor of the building consists of 
the vestibule, a grand staircase hall, with a dome ceiling 46 feet from the 
floor, a small reception room, a suite of three drawing rooms, smoking, 
writing and reading rooms, lavatory and coat room, postoffice and tele- 
graph and telephone service and bureau of information. The second floor 
contains a large hall, 84 feet long, 46 feet wide and 45 feet in height, on the 
west of which is the room reserved for the Board of Lady Managers. 
There is also offices for the General Managers* Board and the Board of 
District Commissioners. The entrance to the building is flanked by the 



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Barbaini lions recently cast in Rome, selected in preference to the lions of 
the Villa Medici, which, however fine, are inferior in size. The four pedes- 
tal lamps lighting the terrace are exact copies in bronze of antique ex- 
amples in the museum at Naples, and are richly sculptured. In the cir- 
cular niches, on either side of the arch of the entrance, are busts of Hudson 
and Columbus. Above the keystone of the arch is the American eagle, 
and dependant from a staff, projecting above the bird, is a flag bearing the 
the State's arms. A striking feature of interior adornment is the arrange- 
ment of the electric lights, in a belt course, marking the second story floor 
and outlining the arched entrance, above which the great seal of the State of 
New York, 10 feet high, is illuminated by a myriad of tiny lamps, set close 
together. A second line of illumination accents the main cornice, and 
similar ones define the edge of the roof garden, and the arches, angles and 
cornices of the two belvideres. Finally, a cluster of lights illuminate the 
bases of the flagpoles. Within and without the building blaze 2,000 electric 
jets. In the main hall on the first floor, besides the beautiful fountains 
scattering their cooling sprays within the spacious porticoes, an object of 
unusual interest is a relief map nearly 20 feet in diameter of the State of 
New York, which of itself cost $30,000. This main hall has a mosaic floor, 
and is hung with imported silk hangings. Here are the parlors and toilet 
rooms for men and women, postoffice; information and baggage-rooms. The 
grand stairway is of marble, and leads to the banquet hall, where the 
visitor can not fail to be impressed with the elegance of the surroundings. 
The beautiful arched ceiling, three stories high, is richly ornamented with 
designs of fruits done in stucco. On the third floor, in addition to twelve 
rooms for general purposes, there is a gallery for a band of music. .Ex- 
hibits are made in all the departments. 

Ne-w Mexico. — The Territory of New Mexico occupies jointly with 
Arizona and Oklahoma a handsome building lying between those of Penn- 
sylvania and Utah. Exhibits are made in the Department of Mines and 
Mining. 

North Carolina. — North Carolina has no building, but exhibits are 
made in the Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Fisheries, Mines 
and Mining and Forestry. 

North Dakota. — The North Dakota Building is the second one to 
the left on the first cross roadway as one enters at Fifth-seventh street. It 
lies between the buildings of Kansas and Nebraska. It is 70x50 feet. A 
space of 46x21 feet in front of the main assembly hall, between the two 
committee rooms, is used as a court-yard. From this court-yard the main 
assembly room is entered through a large stone arch, above which on the 
exterior is an elaborately carved panel containing the coat of arms of 
North Dakota. The main feature of the interior is the assembly hall, 
which includes a space 24x56 feet. The room is spanned by four broad 
arched beams between each of which is a wide window reaching from near 
the ^oor to the roof. At either end of the room is a broad fire place. Com- 



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mittee and toilet rooms are provided throughout the building. The 
structure is two stories high, and the exterior the walls of the main gable 
ends are built of brick. The remainder of the walls are of timber, filled in 
between with plaster panels. North Dakota pays great attention to the ex- 




NORTH DAKOTA BUILDING. 

hibit of her principal product, wheat, but also makes a good showing in 
several other departments. The educational advantages of the State are 
fully presented, and her exhibit is among the best. 

Ohio. — The Ohio Building lies to the east of those of Michigan and 




OHIO BUILDING. 

Wisconsin and is southwest of the Fine Arts Bunding. It is Colonial in 



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style, two stories high, of wood and staff, with tile roof. The ground area 
is 100 feet front by 80 feet deep. The main entrance on the east, is within 
a semi-circular Colonial portico, thirty-three feet high, the roof supported 
by eight great columns. The tile roof, mantels, finishing woods; and much 
of the visible material are the gifts of Ohio producers. The main entrance 




OHIO SOLDrERS' MOXUifENT, EAST SIDE OF OHIO BUILDIXG. 

opens on a lobby, on the left of which is the women's parlor, and on the 
right a committee room. Occupying the central portion of the building is 
the reception hall, 23x36 feet, and 28 feet high, extending through to the 
roof. The coved ceiling of tlie hall is ornamented. Back of the reception 
hall is an open court, 86 feet square, inclosed on three sides, the north and 



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south side being formed by the wings of the building. All of the north 
wing is occupied by the information bureau. The room is 30x50 feet, and 
is divided into offices by wire railings. In the south wing is the parlor for 
men, a writing room, a smoking room, and toilet rooms. On the second 
floor of the north wing is the assembly room, 30x42 feet. The second floor 
on the south wing has a press correspondents' room, servants' rooms, bed 
and bath rooms. The building cost $30,000. Exhibits are made in the De- 
partments of Agriculture and Mines and Mining. 

Oregon. — The Oregon Legislature made an appropriation which was 
expended in exhibits in the several departments. The State has no building. 

Pennsylvania. — The .Pennsylvania Building is the fifth structure on the 
upper side of the roadway leading from the Fifty-seventh street entrance. 
It is in the Colonial style while the front is an exact reproduction of old In- 




PENNSTLVANIA BUILDING. 

dependence Hall, having its entrances, bell-tower and spire. Independ- 
ence bell hangs in the entrance. The rotunda within the entrance is flushed 
in tile and slate, like the old hall. The building is rectangular in form, 
two stories high, with a ground area of llOxlGG feet. The corners of the 
front are quarter-circled in. Piazzas 20 feet wide surround the building, 
and over them are verandas, with protecting balustrade. Outside stair- 
cases, right and left to the rear, lead to the garden on the roof. This roof 
is covered with American-made tin produced in Philadelphia. The outer 
walls to the roof line are of Philadelphia pressed brick. Above the main 
entrance is the coat-of-arms of the State in bas-relief, and on either side of 
it are heroic statues of Penn and Franklin. The front is further ornamented 
with two free groups of statuary, one emblematic of the arts and science, 
the other of mines and manufacture. The interior finishing represents, in 



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the floors, native marble and hardwoods from Pennsylvania, and the walls 
are wainscoted in wood, frescoed, and heavily corniced. The women's 
rooms are finished in maple, and the men's in oak. The walls of the wo- 
men's rooms are ornamented with mural paintings by Pennsylvania women. 
All the ceilings are of stamped metal, and the staircases are of quartered 




DOME OF PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING (FKONT VIEW.) 

oak. On the main floor is the reception room, 33x56 feet, and on either side 
are parlors for men and women. On the second floor are rooms for the 
governor, the press correspondents, the treasurer of the commission, and 
the board of commissioners. There are three bedrooms in the tower. The 
building is supplied with 800 electric lights, and cost $60,000. The follow- 



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ing interesting relics are on exhibition in the Pennsylvania Building: Port- 
raits of William Penn, Hannah, his wife, and a chair owned by Penn; a 
punchbowl used by Washington during the Revolution; portrait of Wash- 
ington painted when he was commander in chief of the Continental army; 
portrait of Thomas Johnston, who made the motion to have Washington 




CO&LB OF PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING (LOOKING FROM SOUTHWEST). 

appointed commander-in-chief; plaster cast of Washington; Gen. Anthony 
Wayne's sword; silver lamp used in Philadelphia during the Revolution ; 
bootjack and appliance left by a British officer at the home of Joseph 
Martin, Philadelphia, at the time of the evacuation; fork and spoon from 



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Valley Forge; waistcoat worn at republican court; lace scarf pin worn by- 
Mrs. John Adams when she sat to Stuart for her portrait; model of the ship 
"Constitution;" portrait of Chevalier Gerard, first French minister to the 
United States; watch and vest and stockings worn by Charles Carroll 
when he signed the Declaration of Independence; hymn book printed in 
Germantown in 1772; manuscript of the first prayer in congress in the 
penmanship of John Hancock; chair used by John Hancock, first president 
of Congress, and also his sword and desk. The old liberty bell is placed on 
a handsome raised platform built on rollers, so that in case of fire it can be 
rolled into the open air in three minutes' time. Exhibits are made in the 
Departments of Agriculture and Mines and Mining. 

Rhode Island. — The Rhode Island Building is immediately north of 
that of Massachusetts. It is after the Greek manner, with columnar porti- 




EHODE ISLAND BUIIJ)IXG. 

coes on four sides of the building, that on the west or front side semi-circu- 
lar in plan, with arched openings between the Ionic pilasters, the latter being 
of the full height of the two stories. The building is a'-.iphiprostyle in that 
the north and south porches — each of the full width of the building— consist 
of four fluted Ionic columns, each 24 inches in diameter and 21 feet high, 
while the rear entrance is between Ionic fluted pilasters, the same as in 
front. The columns are surmounted by an enriched Ionic entablature with 
decorated moldings, modillions and dentils, and above the entablature the 
building is finished with a balustrade surrounding the four sides of the roof, 
with ornamental urns over each pedestal in the balustrade. The building 
has ground area of 32x59 feet, two stories high, in wood and staff, in imita- 
tion of granite. Entrance is had to the building from all sides through 
French windows opening to the floor. The main hall is 18x25 feet, and is 



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open in the roof. The parlor for women and the secretary's office are on 
the first floor. On the second floor are two committee rooms and a gallery 
around the main hall. The governor's room occupies what may be called 
the second story of the porch on the west front. All the floors are hard- 
wood, and the interior is furnished in cypress. The building cost $10,000. 

South Carolina. — The South Carolina Legislature voted adversely on 
the question of making an appropriation, therefore that State has no build- 
ing. 

South Dakota. — The South Dakota Building is the first one to the 
right on entering the grounds at Fifty-seventh street. It has a ground 
area of 70x126 feet, and is two stories high and cost $15,000. The structure 
is frame, the exterior being covered with Yankton cement, in imitation of 
stone work. The roof is corrugated iron and the cornice and brackets are 




SOUTH DAKOTA BUILDING. 

pressed zinc. The main entrance is on the east, along which front extends 
a wide porch with heavy columns supporting a balcony from the second 
story. On the left of the main entrance is a women's parlor, on the right a 
men's reception room. In the main body of the building is the exhibition 
hall, 44x58 feet. Six feet above the main floor is an entresol, having com- 
mittee rooms for the boards of commissioners. In the northwest corner of 
the main floor is a room for. press correspondents. The rotunda in the 
center of the building extends through to the roof and is covered with a sky- 
light. The second floor is devoted to rooms for the women's exhibit and 
special State exhibits. An exhibit is also made in the Department of Agri- 
culture. 

Tennessee. — The Tennessee Legislature failed to make an appropria- 
tion, hence that State has no building. The mining town of Harriman 
makes an exhibit in the Mines and Mining Building. 



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Texas. — The Texas Building is in the northwest part of the grounds. 
In the treatment of the design the architect has not deflected from the his- 
tory of the Lone Star State, which, from its foundation, has been marked 
by a Spanish tinge, whose architectural inclination and handsome botani- 
cal effects lay down a chain of thought far too beautiful to be forsaken for 
that of the present day; therefore, the building was designed for colon- 
nades, grounds, fountains, foliage, etc. It contains an assembly room 56 
feet square, 28 feet high, provided with art glass skylight in the ceiling, 
with a mosaic Texas star in the center. The rostrum, ante-rooms, etc., are 
furnished in the natural woods of Texas. One wing contains rooms for 
bureau of information, register, telephone, messengers, telegraph, directors, 
Texas Press Association headquarters, commissioners, historical museum 
and library, toilet rooms, county collective exhibits, etc. The main entrances 




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are through vestibules, flanked on either side by niches and colonnades. The 
main vestibules terminate in a large auditorium, connecting with the rooms 
mentioned. The building cost $30,000, the money for which was raised by 
the Ladies' Auxiliary World's Fair Board of that State. 

Utah. — The Utah Building is in the extreme north end of the grounds 
and lies east of the Texas Building. It is frame covered with staff; is two 
stories high, and has an area of 46x82 feet. In style the facade is modern 
renaissance. The foundation, columns, pilasters, cornice and other orna- 
mental parts are made in imitation of the different kinds of stone in Utah. 
The walls are lined off in imitation of adobes. On the first floor is an ex- 
hibit hall, 41x45 feet, open to the roof and covered with a skylight. In the 
rear of this hall is a circular bay, and in this is the main stairway. This 
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grounds, standing as it does among the other State edifices, and lending 
its handsome exterior to the group. It is a worthy illustration of the taste 
of the people of that Territory, and will attract the visitor by its novelty. 
Its interior is planned with a special view to the comfort of those who 
make it their headquarters. The two stories are laid out in nearly the 
same fashion, comprising on the first floor several rooms for the use of the 
commissioners. A reception room is placed here, as also the secretary's 
office, and women's parlor. The second room is similar in arrangement to 
the first, there being an exhibition room, 41x45 feet, and various office 




UTAH BUILDING. 

rooms. The building cost $10,000. Exhibits are made in the Departments 
of Agriculture and Mines and Mining. 

Vermont. — The Vermont Building lies immediately east of the Massa- 
chusetts Building and is next to the last structure north of the roadway 
leading from the Fifty-seventh street entrance. This building is one of the 
most unique and original on the grounds. On the right and left of the steps 
on the fa(;;ade rise two shafts, on which are allegorical figures representing 
the industries of agriculture and quarrying — the two principal industrial 
activities of the State. One enters through a columned portico into a court- 
yard, on the right and left of which are covered porches with broad seats. 
Just off these are the reception rooms in front and committee room, post- 
ofifice, etc., in the rear. In the center of the court is a handsome marble 
fountain. Marble from the quarries of the State is used all through the 
interior of the building. Facing the end of the court is a porch, supported 
by four carytids, over which is a semi-circular Greek window with bas-relief 
around it representing "Freedom and Unity." The coat-of-arms is in the 
center. The reception hall, which is located in the rear, is circular in form. 



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with a colonnade around, and a wooden dome surmounts the structure. All 
is colored according to a Pompeiian scheme. The building is Pompeiian 




VERMONT BULLDING. 

in style and of classic detail, and furnishes a most unique contrast to the 
other buildings. 

Virginia. — The Virginia Building is in the northeast part of the 
grounds and lies east of the Iowa Building. It is a very unique structure 
and cost $18,000. It covers an area of 175x185 feet, and lies near 
the lake and opposite the Maryland Building. The structure is an 
exact representation of the Mount Vernon mansion in Fairfax county, 
Virginia, near Washington city, the building in which George Wash- 
ington lived and died. It got into his hands from his brother, Law- 
rence Washington, and was built in the early part of the last century 
by his father. The main building is 94x32 feet, two stories and an attic and 
a two-story portico, with large columns extending along the whole front, 
being 94 feet long, 13 feet high and 14 feet wide. The portico extends up 
to the cornice of the roof, has an ornamental railing around the top and is 
furnished with settees along the whole length next the wall. There are two 
colonnades running back from each wing of the building to the rear about 
20 feet long, 9^ feet wide and 11 feet high, connected each with a one-and- 
a-half story structure, 40x20 feet. These are called the dependencies. 
Altogether there are twenty-five rooms in the structure. On the first and 
second floors of the main building there are eleven rooms, in the attic six, 
and in each of the dependencies four rooms. The largest rooms in the 
house are the banquet hall, 31x23 feet, and the library 16x19 feet, the main 
entrance hall, Washington's chamber, in which he died, upon the second 
floor, and Mrs. Washington's chamber in the attic, to which she removed 



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after her husband's death and which she occupied during the remainder of 
her life on account of its being the only room in the house which looked out 
upon his tomb. The apartments average upon the first floor 17x17 feet, 
upon the second, 17x13 feet. The height of the first story is 10 feet, 9 inches; 
of the second, 7 feet, 11 inches; of the attic, 6 feet, 9 inches. The distance 
from the ground to the top of the cupola is 50 feet. In the main hall is a 
large stairway four feet wide, ascending by platforms to the floors above. 
On the first platform of the stairway there is an old Washington family 
clock, a very interesting historical relic. This hall is furnished with 
antique sofas and pictures of the last century. The rooms upon the first 
floor are ornamented by heavy carved and molded wood trimmings and 
handsome mantels, very antique. This Virginia Building is not only an 
exact representation in every particular of the old Mount Vernon structure. 




VIRGINIA BUILDING. 

but everything within it is also of the same character. Nothing modern is 
seen in the building, except the people and the library of books by exclus- 
ively Virginia authors. As far as could be done the building was furnished 
with articles which were collected from all over the State, the heirlooms o^ 
old Virginia families, and with portraits of the same character. Whatever 
may be lacking in furnishing the building with articles of this character is 
supplied with furniture made after the same old fashion. There is a very 
rare collection of relics of Colonial times and of the Revolutionary War, 
and everything which is antique, among w^hich is exhibited a copy of the 
original will of George Washington. The library is furnished entirely with 
books written by Virginians or relating to Virginia, quite a large collection 
of which has been made, and ornamented with old Virgmia portraits, views 
and other relics of the Colonial period and the last century. Altogether the 



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building with its furnishings is uncqualcd in its character and appointments 
and nothing like it will be found elsewhere except at Mount Vernon itself. 
Exhibits are made in the Departments of Agriculture and Mines and 
Mining. 

Washington. — The Washington building is the second one to the right 
on entering at Fifth-seventh street, and lies between the b-'ildings of South 
Dakota and Colorado. It embraces a main hall, space 118x72 feet, to 
which are connected two wings, 118x40 feet, and cost $50,000. The main 
entrance on the east, and from each corner of the main structure square 
towers rise up, inclosing staircases to galleries. These galleries are 52x15 
feet, overlooking the main hall. The east entrance of the building is under 
a great stone arch, which is the only stonework about the structure. This 
arch is built of alternate blocks of gray tinino, blue chuckanut, and white 
Pittsburg stone. Foundations of the buildings are of great fir logs, laid five 




\\ A>IlI.\OXu>, BUILDING. 

deep. Two base logs at the north and south ends are each 127 feet long, 
and after having been slabbed off very deeply are still eight feet in diam- 
eter at the butt ends. The heavier of these weighs 36,000 pounds and 
occupied four flat cars in transit. In squaring three sides enough lumber 
was cut away to build a good-sized cottage, while in the log itself is mater- 
ial for a big house. These logs have all been squared on three sides, pre- 
senting a rounded surface to the outside. These are left in their natural 
state. The largest of these sections was cut from trees 600 feet in height, 
which had not a branch less than 150 feet from the earth. This foundation 
constitutes a timber exhibit from Washington. The two wings form a sin- 
gle room each, and are devoted to State exhibits. Nearly all of the first 
floor of the main building is devoted to a reception room, while in the 
second story are committee rooms, parlors, reception and toilet rooms. The 



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roof is of shingles, and the interior is finished in cedar and fir. All of the 
material used in the building comes from Washington, the lumber coming 
from Puget Sound, while the main entrance, an important decorative fea- 
ture, is of granite, marble and ore, from quarries within the State. The 
sky-reaching flag-staff, 208 feet in height, was first 236 feet in length. It is 
of native timber, and weighs 32 tons. To her sister States Washington has 
donated about 40 flag poles, ranging from 100 to 125 feet in length, placed 
in front of their respective headquarters. At first view the Washington 
building, with its quaint towers, reminds one of a Holland residence and 
windmill. It is unlike any other structure on the grounds, and sure to in- 
vite favorable attention. The commissioners have spent $100,000 in col- 
lecting a State exhibit. 

West Virginia. — The West Virginia Building lies at the upper end of 
the group of the State buildings and is between the joint building of Ari- 




WEST VIRGINIA BUILDING. 

zonia, New Mexico and Oklahoma and the Utah Building. It is in the 
Colonial style, two stories high, with a pitched roof, the outer walls being 
weatherboarded and painted, and cost $20,000. It is representative of the 
West Virginia residence. The roof is shingled. The interior is finished in 
hard wood, the walls are plastered, and the ceilings are of ornamental iron 
work from Wheeling. All of the exposed material in the building is the 
product of the State. The main entrance is on the west, on a platform 
porch. Above the entrance is the coat of arms of the State in bas-relief. 
Within the entrance is a vestibule, with rooms for the boards of commis- 
sioners on either side. Beyond the vestibule is a large reception hall 
flanked by parlors for women and men. Back of these parlors are toilet 
and and retiring rooms. On the second floor front are two committee 
rooms, and the balance of the floor constitutes an assembly room and recep- 



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tion hall 34x76 feet in size. There are four large fireplaces in the building, 
two on each floor, with very handsome carved wood mantels. The building 
has a ground area of 58x123 feet. Exhibits are made in the Departments 
of Agricultural and Mines and Mining. 

Wisconsin. — The Wisconsin Building is in the group of State buildings 
to the right of the roadway leading from the Fifty-seventh street entrance 
and lies between those of Indiana and Michigan. This building represents 
the Wisconsin home, being designed in no special style. All the visible 
material comes from Wisconsin. The exterior is of Ashland brown stone, 
Menomonee pressed brick, and hardwoods from various sections of the 
State. The roof is covered with dimension shingles. The window glass is 
plate. It is practically three stories high, but apparently only two, one 
story being in the roof. Its ground area is 80x90 feet, exclusive of the ve- 
randas on the east and west, which are eighteen feet wide. The semicircu- 




WISCONSIN BUILDING. 

lar verand s on the north and south are entered only from the interior of 
the building. The second and third stories have verandas on the east and 
west. The main entrance* faces the east and is 18 feet wide. The interior 
is finished entirely in oiled hard wood. The first floor is tiled and the ceil- 
ing is paneled in hard wood. On this floor are three fire-places, with man- 
tels in oak and maple. The first floor has a large reception room, men's 
and women's parlors and toilet rooms, an intelligence office and a postoffice. 
The second floor has a historical room, and offices for the commissioners. 
On the west side of the floor is a large stained glass window, presented by 
the city of West Superior. This beautiful piece of workmanship is much 
admired by all. On this floor are two very elegant mantels in pressed 
brick. The third floor contains eight large bedrooms. Taken altogether, 
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building cost 830,000. Exhibits are made in the Departments of Agriculture 
and Mines and Mining. 

Wyoming. — The Wyoming Building is in style a modern club house. 
The dimensions are 70 feet in length by 60 feet in width. It is located in 
the extreme north end of the grounds, commanding an interesting view 
across the park-like portions of the grounds reserved for State buildings. 
It is also convenient to the steamboat landing. The interior arrangement 
consists of a main hall 24x40 feet, with tw^o offices on the first floor, which 
are used for the reception and entertainment of visitors, while the collect- 
ive exhibit is placed in the main hall. From here a circular stairway 
ascends to the second story, where the toilet rooms are located. The gal- 
lery around the hall and doors leads out upon the balconies on each of the 
four sides. The building is in the French chateau style, and the panels of 
the main frieze exterior contain elaborately wrought hunting and pastoral 




WYOMING BUILDING. 



scenes. The people of Wyoming realize that the Exposition offers an 
unusual opportunity to make known to the world the varied material 
resources of their State; her coal lands, wells of oil, soda deposits and rich 
mines of iron and precious metals. The exhibit is arranged with the 
object of showing forth the advantages of the State, both to home-seekers 
of limited means and capitalists seeking fields of investment. To this end 
the classification includes Wyoming's best specimens of wheat, corn, oats, 
barley, rye, buckwheat, native and cultivated grasses and forage plants. 
Irrigation methods are illustrated with maps and diagrams. The live 
stock exhibit includes the best specimens of blooded horses and cattle, and 
illustrations of methods of handling range horses, cattle and sheep. The 
committee on horticulture and floriculture have made their department* as 



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complete as possible, representing all perishable articles by fac-similes in 
wax or plaster. Specimens of the present and extinct animal life of the 
State, petrefactions, Indian implements, dress, and ornaments have been 
carefully collected by the committee on scenic exhibits, and form a most 
interesting feature of the State's contribution. The committee also- 
endeavors, by means of paintings, photographs and models, to illustrate 
other striking features of Wyoming and its leading industries. 

Joint Building.— The joint building of the Territories of Arizona, New 
Mexico and Oklahoma occupies an advantageous location among the other 
State and Territorial buildings in the north end of the grounds. It is two 




JOINT TERRITORIAL BUILDING. 

stories in height, 28 feet over all, and has a frontage of 90 feet. It is orna- 
mental in design and of a composite character, the lower story being sup- 
ported by Doric columns. The main building is divided into three depart- 
ments, one floor for each Territory, each department having a grand recep- 
tion room in the center, flanked on each side by parlors. The offices of the 
commissioners are grouped around the main reception rooms, dividing 
them from the parlors on each side. It is a frame building finished in acme 
cement plaster, and is used for various exhibits as well as for the general 
headquarters. 




FOREIGN PARTICIPATION. 



[For Classification of Exhibits, Plan of Installation, List of Exhibitors 
and Character of Collective Foreign Exhibits in the Departmental Build- 
ings, see Official Catalogues,] 

The foreign countries which are officially participating in the Expo- 
sition are as follows. The total amount of their appropriations is over 
$6,000,000: 

Argentine Republic, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chili, Co- 
lombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, St. Thomas, Ecuador, France, Germany, 
Great Britain, British Guiana, Canada, Cape Colony, Ceylon, India, Ja- 
maica, New South Wales, Trinidad, Greece, Guatamala, Hayti, Honduras, 
Italy, Japan, Johore, Korea, Liberia, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, 
Curasao, Norway, Orange Free State, Paraguay, Persia, Portugal, Russia, 
Salvador, San Domingo, Siam, Spain, Cuba, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, 
Uruguay, Venezuela. 

Argentine Republic. — The collective exhibit of the government of the 
Argentine Republic contains an instructive assortment of the products of 
that country, including wines, skins, ores, woods, dyestuffs, etc. In manu- 
factures a very good and creditable display is made, showing the progress 
the country has made in this line, especially in later years, when, mostly 
owing to the high premium on gold prevailing, the establishment of new 
industries has been greater than ever. The Argentine Republic being an 
agricultural country Par excellence, its exhibits in the Agricultural Building 
do not fail to attract attention. At the Paris Exposition this section of 
Argentine exhibits won much admiration, but the fine collection shown here 
far surpasses it. Not less interesting is the display in the Mines and Min- 
ing Building, where a collection of over five thousand different specimens 
of minerals are shown, from the different provinces of the Republic. Equally 
attractive is the excellent collection of hard and fine woods shown in the For- 
estry Building, In Viticulture and Pomology Argentine wines, alcohols, dry 
fruits, etc., constitute the principal products exhibited. Boats found by the 
Spaniards upon their first discovery of the River Plata; railroad material 
and saddlery, are the main features of the Argentine exhibits in the Trans- 
portation Building. Exhibits belonging to the Department of Ethnology 
and the Woman's department, are made in those buildings, respectively. 
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ings: Manufactures, 6,000 square feet; Agriculture, 5,310 square feet; Mines 
and Mining, 2,758 square feet; Forestry, 1,510 square feet; Shoes and 
Leather, 1,595 square feet; Viticulture and Pomology, 1,122 square feet ; Trans- 
portation, 1,206 square feet; Ethnology, 1,240 square feet; Woman's Build- 
ing, 184 square feet; Liberal Arts, 1,000 square feet. In the Fine Arts 
Building 600 square feet of wall space is devoted to pictures by Argentine 
artists. 

Austria. — Austria displays a comprehensive and extensive illustration 
of the growth and development of its industry, education and science. 
This exhibit of Austrian industry and art has been prepared with the great- 
est energy, and it will be found to well fill its place, to testify to the indus- 
try and intelligence of its people; and the occasion will undoubtedly result 





STATUAKY ON TEANSPOETATION EXHIBITS BUILDING. 

in the further increase of those agreeable relations which exist between 
Austria and the United States. In the Department of Manufactures, Aus- 
tria has the space just north of the German exhibit. Each of three entrances 
are guarded by tall pillars surmounted by Austrian eagles. The pavilions 
are all mounted with the Austrian crown in gold. Soaps and perfumes, 
paper and paper-pulp, artists' materials, portieres, screens, furniture, terra 
cotta, porcelain, majolica and faience articles, mosaics, bronze goods, fancy 
glassware, amber and meerschaum work, gold and silverware, jewelry, 
goods of shell and horn, silks and velvets, cotton, linen and damask goods, 
woolens, gloves, hats, buttons, combs, leather goods, rubber goods, tin plate 
goods, steam cooking apparatus, steel goods, pearl goods, bathing" appli- 
ances, closets, billiard cues, glass bricks for building purposes, wood carv- 
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in this department. In the Department of Electricity are shown electrical 
apparatus, supplies, lamps, clocks, control apparatus, etc. In the Depart- 
ment of Liberal Arts exhibits are made of medical, surgical and pharma- 
ceutical appliances, school apparatus, statistical and geographical maps 
and illustrations, photographs, instruments of precision, letter boxes, musi- 
cal instruments, etc. Agricultural products, appliances for the cultivation 
of bees, hops, mineral waters, insecticides, malts, liqueurs, publications on 
seed raising, wax and waxen goods, oils, etc., are to be seen in the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. In the Department of Forestry woodstuffs, eed col- 
lections, rushes and last-goods are shown. 

Belgium. — As regards size, the most important feature of the Belgian 
exhibit is found in the Manufactures Building. The space allotted Bel- 
gium has a frontage of one hundred and forty feet on Columbian avenue, 
and the pavilion covers four thousand five hundred square feet of space. 
The facade of the building is the same height as that of France, its neigh- 
bor, and the structure comprises a grand central arch and two smaller 
arches at each side. All carpentry work for the pavilion was done in Bel- 
gium. Among the many interesting things to be seen are a magnificent 
collection of bronze art works and mammoth crystal glass plates from 
Charleroi. Belgium also shows a fine exhibit of faience, furniture with fine 
carvings, etc., in this department. 

More than two hundred Belgian artists have contributed to the exhibits 
in the Art Palace. All works of art in the collection were passed upon by 
an expert jury at Brussels, and only the most creditable productions were 
sent to Chicago. Bronze art works form a notable part of the display. 
Exhibits are also made in the Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, 
Transportaion, Liberal Arts and the Woman's Buildings. 

Brazil. — Brazil's exhibit is made in the various departmental buildings, 
principally in Agriculture, Forestry, Fine Arts, Machinery, Mines and Hort- 
iculture, and it consists of specimens of all the products of the soil, coffee, 
spices and woods from all the Brazilian States, about 150 paintings and a 
large number of marble statues. One statue, by Dr. Julio Brandao, is a 
life-size figure of Christ in white marble. A solid piece of rubber, ten feet 
in diameter and about twelve feet long, is shown. There is also a fine col- 
lection of coins, specimens of gold, silver and copper ores, together with 
various kinds of precious stones. The Brazilian Building is one of the 
handsomest and most attractive among the structures erected by foreign 
governments. It is ornamented in staff and painted white. The structure 
is in the form of a Greek cross, and inarchitecture isa pure class of French 
renaissance. It occupies an area of 150 feet square; is located on the pen- 
insula just off the lagoon in the north end of the grounds and lies between 
the Fine Arts and Fisheries buildings. The height from the ground to the 
roof is 60 feet; height in the clear 150. The structure is two stories, sur- 
mounted by a dome 40 feet in diameter and 40 feet above the roof. There 
are four campaniles which are used as points of observation. The roof is 



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also used as a promenade, upon which beautiful specimens of the flora of 
the Republic of Brazil are tastefully arranged and from which a fine view 
of the grounds and lake is obtained. The interior is a vast arena, the walls 




BUILDING OF BRAZIL. 

and ceilings of which are highly ornamented in sculpture and ornaments 
emblematic of historical events pertaining to Brazil. There are no exhibits 
in the building. The offices of the commissioners are on the first floor. 

British Guiana. — The British Guiana exhibit stands in the northwest 
corner of Agricultural Hall, and forms one of the wildest but most pict- 
uresque scenes in the building. Huge, square cut logs, from trees that 
shot upward 250 feet in the air of British Guiana, form pillars of the ex- 
hibit. Greenhart and mora — the hardwoods used in shipbuilding — the koo- 
rahura, the wallaba, used for making rum casks, and the beautiful crab- 
wood, seen so often in furniture, are the most valuable exhibits. They are 
exhibited in the rough and after passing through the hands of the work- 
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are still full of them. Besides these specimens of wood there are logs of 
purple heart, hoolooballi, tonka bean, locust, white and yellow satinwood 
and towranero. Some curious specimens of buttress wood, which has no 
heart and looks like the shriveled hand of a giant, are exhibited as stands 
for flower-pots. British Guiana also shows her skill in making curacoa, 
bitters and rum. Her preserved fruits are a specialty. In 1884, 250 ounces 
of gold were found in her gold mines. Last year the miners obtained 
130,000 ounces, and some of this is on exhibition. The prettiest part of 
the exhibit lies in the cases where some beautiful feather fans are shown. 

Bulgaria. — Bulgaria does not make an extensive exhibit. It consists 
principally of the ottar of roses, valued at $100,000, and is installed in the 
Department of Agriculture. 

Canada. — Various commercial, agricultural, scientific and educational 
articles are shown in the several departments from the provincial govern- 
ments of Ontario, Quebec, Ottawa, British Columbia, Manitoba, Halifax, 
New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories. The 
Canadian Building stands upon a site of nearly 6,000 square feet of ground 
on the lake shore but a short distance from the United States Battleship, 
opposite Victoria House. The pavilion has three entrances; a main or 
front entrance, facing the southeast, and two end entrances on the east rnd 
west, respectively. The front entrance is through the tower, and has three 
doorways. Opposite this main entrance is the grand stairway, beneath and 
in the rear of which are numerous lavatories. In the entrance hall are 
located the postoffice, the telephone office and an intelligence office. In 
the latter are kept registers giving all possible information to visiting 
Canadians as to lodgings, board, the whereabouts of friends in Chicago, 
and other information that may be useful to Canadian visitors. Off the 
entrance hall is the reception room. Over five hundred Canadian news- 
papers are on file here. To the left of the main entrance are two hand- 
some offices for the Dominion Commission, while the other four offices on 
this floor are occupied by the commissioners from the provinces of Ontario 
and Quebec. On the first floor are two more offices for the Dominion Com- 
mission, four for commissioners of different provinces of Canada, a com- 
mittee room and a large parlor for the use of the whole staff. On the 
second floor are the tower room and the smoking room, and in the attic 
above is the dormitory for the guardian of the pavilion. As the sum ap- 
propriated for the erection of the pavilion was limited, a plain style of 
architecture had to be adopted. Running around all sides of the building 
is a veranda ten feet wide, with a balcony above of the same width. The 
balcony is supported by twenty-eight Tuscan columns. The walls at the 
eaves of the roof are finished with a bold dental cornice. The pavilion is 
covered with a low pitched roof, partly hidden by a wall. The tower, as it 
issues through the roof is circular, and is divided into twelve panels; 
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cornice, over which is an open balustrade. Over this is the "lookout," 
whence rises the flag pole, from which, from sunset to sunrise, proudly 
floats the Canadian flag. The walls and ceilings are furnished with native 
Canadian woods, highly polished and showing the natural grain. Each 
province of Canada has furnished the native woods required to finish its 




BUILDING OF CANADA. 

individual rooms. Around the pavilion is a neat plot of ground covered 
with green turf, dotted here and there with native Canadian shrubbery and 
conveniently and artistically divided with serpentine roadways and walks. 
This building, with its furnishings and surroundings cost over S30,000. 

Cape Colony. — The Cape Colony of South Africa is making a fine dis- 
play of its products in the Agricultural Building, where it has an allotment 
of 2,000 square feet, which is surrounded by handsome arches and glass 
screens in white stucco and gold. In this court is shown a display of 
ostrich feathers; merino wool; angora hair; a trophy of wines in the shape 
of a huge bottle; African woods and ivory; maps of the country; stuffed 



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lomestic animals, consisting of fat-tail sheep; ostriches full grown and 
chicks six weeks old, all in full plumage; paintings of the celebrated Cape 
flora; trophies of Kaffir ornaments; rare wild animal rugs; horns; basket 
utensils; silver leaves; cape immortelles; pyramids of ostrich eggshells; 
raw skins; buchu leaves; peas; beans; and cereals, including Kaffir 
corn, etc, 

In the Mines Building the mineral wealth of the Cape Colony, is ex- 
hibited. The Cape court in that building, which is between Brazil and 
Mexico, is encased entirely in plate glass, set in pilasters, and cornices of 
ebonized wood highly gilt. The court is divided into compartments, one 
of which is a machinery hall, where the public can see behind plate glass 
the process of winning precious diamonds from the virgin diamondiferous 
soil brought from the mines at Kimberle. The process of sieving and puls- 
ating the blue diamond ground is highly interesting. The machinery is 
served by three powerful Zulus who came from South Africa to do that 
work. After the pebbles are washed free from the soil, the same are re- 
moved from the last sieve and spread in- the sorting room on a table where 
the person in charge picks out the diamonds that each washing produces. 

Adjoining the sorting room are cleaning, cutting and polishing works. 
Here skilled workmen, behind plate glass, show the public the manipula- 
tion of turning the rough diamond into a dazzling brilliant. Next to the 
work room is a private exhibit of diamonds of great value, consisting of 
rare and choice specimens collected and selected since 1870, when the 
diamond mines in Cape Colony were first discovered. At the opposite end 
of the pavilion, in a handsomely fitted room, the Cape shows blue and white 
asbestos garnets, found in the diamond soil; pyramids of lumps of diamond 
ground; rich copper ore; crocidolite, raw and manufactured coals; salt, and 
two hundred and forty-three specimens of the mineral wealth of Africa 
south of the Zambezi. Between the diamond machinery hall and the min- 
eral room is a reception room, where files of South African papers and 
books of reference are kept for visitors. 

In the Woman's Building the Cape exhibits in two large glass cabinets 
the handiwork of the Colonial and native women. This exhibit was care- 
fully selected from a collection made throughout Cape Colony. Mrs. 
Wiener, the wife of the chief commissioner for Cape Colony, has charge of 
these cabinets. 

It the Transportation Building the model of the graving dock of Cape 
Town is shown; also plans of the harbors of Table Bay, East London and 
Algoa Bay. 

In the Horticultural Building the Colony shows the rare plant known 
as Wilwitchia. 

Adjoining the ore yard near the Mines Building the 150 tons of virgin 
diamondiferous ground in blue lumps is exhibited. The care of this valu- 
able product is in charge of three native Zulus, who live in the enclosure in 
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Ceylon. — The Ceylon exhibits are numerous and consist of works of 
art, manufactures, the products of the Island, jewelry and curios, with a 
most interesting exhibit presented by the late Sultan of the Maldives to the 
Ceylon government. The court stands to the north of the German Build- 
ing, fronting the lake. It is 162 feet in length. The pillars and such parts 
of the ends of the beams as are in view, and the four entrance doors, as 
also the central octagon, are beautifully carved in imitation of the carving 
found on the stone pillars and objects of art in the ancient cit" of Anurad- 



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napura and other places of great antiquity. This court is a fine exhibit in 
itself. The Ladies* Committee for Ceylon consists of Lady Havelock, 
President Lady Burnside, Lady Grenier, Lady de Soyza, Mrs. Coplestonf 
Mrs. Allanson Bailey, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Grinlinton, Mrs. Mitchell. Some 
excellent exhibits in lace, the work of natives of the island, and some works 
of art, all being the work of women's hands, were collected by the com- 
mittee, and form an interesting feature in Ceylon's miniature court in the 
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Indian corn, sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, cardamons and cinnamon, essen- 
tial oils, flax, fibres, rope, farming utensils, horns and teeth, tusks, woods, 
etc., are exhibited in the Department of Agriculture. 

In the Department of Fisheries can be seen fi'shing tackle, boats, fish 
products, mussel shells, aquatic birds, pearl fishery and appliances, pearl 
oysters, etc. 

Machines for cleaning skins, jewelers' and silversmiths' tools, tile and 
brickmakers' tools, gem polishers, etc., are exhibited in the Department of 
Machinery. 

In the Department of Transportation Exhibits can be seen bullock carts, 
models and appliances of war ships, rowing and fishing boats, etc. 

Medicinal drugs, vanilla, native ink, furniture, mounted elephants' tusks, 
pottery, bronze and brass goods, ivory articles, jewelry, Kandyan cloth, 
artificial flowers, hides and skins, cutlery, etc.. are on exhibition in the De- 
partment of Manufactures. In the Department of Liberal Arts exhibits arc 
made of books, photographs and musical instruments. 

Chili. — A complete display of nitrate from Chili is made in the De- 
partment of Mines and ^Mining. The action of nitrates as a fertilizer is also 
shown in the Departments of Agriculture and Horticulture. 

Colombia. — The building erected for the Republic of Colombia has a 







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frontage of 5G feet and a height of 60 feet. In the center a dome rises in 
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the country. On each side of the building there is a hothouse, which is 
12x24 feet, communicating with the central part. The building has two 
floors. A large staircase leads up from the rear side of the center to the 
second floor, which forms a gallery all around the building. The style of 
architecture is essentially French. The two corners in front corresponding 
with the dome are crowned by two groups of children supporting a globe 
from which two flagstaffs project. The dome is in glass. This is a hand- 
some and graceful building on account of the quantity of such details and 
the correctness of its lines. In the interior there are a number of showcases 
and shelves, upon which the wealth of the country and its most remarkable 
objects are exhibited. There is also a reception room with handsome 
furniture. The building is finished in wood, staff, iron and zinc, and cost 
$20,000. 

Costa Rica. — The Costa Rica Building is situated at the east end of 




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the north pond facing west. Across the north pond, and within a distance 
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Wisconsin Buildings. To the right are the Galleries of Fine Arts, and on 
the left stand Guatemala and Spain, while as a background and not far 
distant, Lake Michigan murmurs praise to the efforts of mortal man. The 
building is Doric in style; is 103 feet long by 60 feet wide, two stories and 
clearstory, making the full height 50 feet. On each side is a Doric portico 
22 feet wide, supported by four large pilasters. Three easy steps lead up 
to the main floor, and opposite this front entrance broad double stairways 
lead to the second, or gallery floor, supported by eighteen columns rising 
to the full height of the clearstory. The cornices, frieze molding, caps 
and bases, window casements, etc., are made of iron. The main walls are 
cemented, and all is painted in effective colors. The inside walls are 
plastered, and the walls and timber work are frescoed in a modest and 
becoming manner. The building is lighted by twenty large double case- 
ment windows in the first story, and ten large skylights in the roof of the 
clearstory, while on all sides of the latter the windows are pivoted so that 
when opened they will afford perfect ventilation. Ample toilet rooms have 
been provided on each floor. Over each main entrance to the building is 
placed the National shield of the Central American republic in bold relief, 
making a striking addition to the decorative part of the work. The build- 
ing cost $20,000. 

Cuba. — The Cuban exhibit is made collectively in the Department of 
Agriculture in a pavilion connected with that of Spain and the Philippene 
Islands. It consists principally of sugar, tobaccos, spices and dye stuffs. 

Curacao. — Under this general head the islands of Curasao, Aruba, 
Bonaire and little Curasao, a part of the Dutch West Indies, make a col- 
lective exhibit in the Agricultural Building. The principal articles exhibited 
are salt, phosphates, Curasao orange peel and the liquor, shells, sponges 
and other marine growths, models of fishing boats and native dwelling- 
houses, native furniture, pottery and tools, baskets and Panama straw work, 
leather, wax goods, aloes, snuff, licorice, grains and agricultural products, 
preserved fruits and jellies, gums, musical instruments, woods and gold 
quartz, native jewelry, gold, silver and copper, women's needle work and 
embroidery, and shells, sea weed and feather work. Antiquities of the 
Ancient Caribs, including a burial urn with the skeleton found therein, are 
of interest. 

Denmark. — The Danish exhibits are principally in the Manufactures 
and Agricultural buildings and in the Art Palace and the Woman's Build- 
ing. The main exhibit in the Manufactures Building is the finest that has 
ever been made by Denmark. The pavilion which fronts on the main aisle 
of the building, represents on its facade the coat of arms of the city of 
Copenhagen. On the sides of the pavilion paintings by Danish artists of 
local and colonial scenery are hung, and in the interior the decorations are 
magnificent and unique. Among the interesting points of the interior is an 
exact reproduction of a room in the house of Hans Anderson. In the 
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The Queen sent a painting, a floral piece of roses and lilies; the Crown 
Princess, old embroideries and handkerchiefs; the Princess Marie of Den- 
mark, three large acquarelles; the Countess Rohan-Ledtzen, national cos- 
tumes of Aneager and Filer; the Baroness Reedl-Thosa, old linen embroid- 
ery and antique carved wooden appliances for laundry work ; the Countess 
Moltke Bregenteid, linen embroideries by Hedebo peasants; C. Stansho- 
hen, yellow silk embroideries on blue velvet. The list comprises many 
similar articles, loaned by distinguished people. 

Iceland sagas, bearing on the early discoveries of the Norsemen and 
the stories of their trips to Vinland and North America, have been leni by 
the Danish government to the United States for exhibition at the Exposi- 
tion. These sa^as arc entitled Codex Fluteyensis. It required a great deal 
of red tape to secure these valuable manuscripts. Before permitting them 
to leave Copenhagen the Danish government stipulated that in case of the 
total loss $20,000 must be paid for them and all expenses incident to their 
exhibition. They are to be returned by a United States man-of-war. 

In the Department of Agriculture are dairy appliances, butter in tins, 
condensed milk, machine and hand churns, beer, liquors, axle-grease, etc. 

Denmark makes a very creditable display in the Department of 
Machinery. Here are shown coffee-mills, machines for shoe re-soling, lith- 
ographing, apparatus for preventing machinery running hot, etc. 

In the Department of Liberal Arts are exhibited books, illustrations, 
maps, designs for home and school work, photgraphs, pianos, etc. 

Ecuador. — The Republic of Ecuador has a collective exhibit in the 
Agricultural Building and shows its agricultural products such as cocoa, 
coffee, tobacco, cotton, sugar cane, anis seed, wheat, corn, rice, etc., and 
from its forests such as rubber, red-bark "quina," vegetable ivory, and over 
five hundred kinds of woods valuable for furniture and constructiye pur- 
poses; the Toguilla straw with which the inimitable straw hats, erroneously 
known as Panama hats are made; cabuya or sisal hemp and other fibrous 
plants, gums, resinous barks, etc., of immense value to science and 
industry. Samples of the many minerals that enrich the Ecuadorian 
soil, side by side being the auriferous quartz of ^aruma, the silver of 
Pilzrun, and samples from the gold washing sands of Sigsig and 
Esmeraldas (Plays de oro, Angostura, etc.), as also samples of crude 
petroleum from the beds of Santa Elena; of sulphur from Alansie; of 
marble from Farqui, etc., are exhibited. 

Native industry is shown by the straw hats of Manabi, refined sugars 
from Milagro and Galapagos; ropes, cords, etc., made in Ambato from the 
sisal plant; different kinds of spirits, beer and liquors from Quito, Guaya- 
quil, and Cuenca; samples of weaving in silk; wool, cotton, cigars, cigarettes, 
machinery, tapestry, saddlery, tanning, boot-making, tailoring, iron found- 
ing, etc. 

The arts occupy a preferable position in the pavilion and visitors will 
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salras, Cadena, Salguero and other famed Quito artists. In sculpture there 
are on view works by the famous Cuencano sculptors, Don Miguel Veliz 
and Benelcazor, as well as those of many others in painting, sculpture, 
music, gold and silverware, etc. 

Samples of the ladies' hand work consist of embroideries, open work 
in silk and linen, lace and crochet, paintings in oil and watercolors, drawing, 
hair work, and numerous fancy articles in vegetable ivory, metals, wax, 
feathers, and fibres. 

There is another section devoted to curiosities in which are placed 
pieces of rare vestments, some used by the tame Indians of Ecuador, and 
others again of the untamed. Human heads reduced in size by an undis- 
coverable secret; arms and trophies of war, fossils, numistical collections, 
antiquities, etc. The different articles pertaining to the t\^o tribes Quitus 
and Canaris and dating anterior to the Spanish Conquest, are placed in a 
separate case, thus forming an interesting attraction to scientific uisitors. 
This archasologic and ethnologic collection was very highly praised at the 
Madrid Exposition, and is composed in the greater part of ancient pottery 
of the time of Seyris and the Incas, of idols, figures, musical instruments 
made of baked clay, as also a few of stone and bronze, as human figures, 
domestic utensils, workmen's tools and instruments of war. 

France. — The French Pavilion lies near the shore of Lake Michigan, 
and directly east of an annex of the Fine Arts Building. The outside wall 
is decorated with paintings, showing various views of Paris and govern- 
ment buildings there. The entire pavilion has a frontage of 200 feet, and 
a depth of more than 100 feet. It cost $100,000. This building has quite 
a historical interest, for it is a reproduction, on a small scale, of the Apollo 
Hall of the castle of Versailles. It was in this hall that King Louis XVI 
officially received Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane and Arthur Lee, dele- 
gates from the thirteen original States, who were met by A. Conrad, secre- 
tary of the Council of State of France. A colonnade of graceful design in 
three sections, like three sides of a rectangle, connects this section of the 
French building with another composed of two large rooms and a vestibule. 
All the exhibits found in this hall, tapestries, furniture and curios, belong 
to the War of Independence. One can see, among others, the bureau from 
the library of Fafayette. Among the most important relics figures the 
sword of honor presented to Lafayette in 1779 by the Congress. There are 
also two finger rings containing locks of hair from the heads of Washing- 
ton and his wife, some busts of Washington and Franklin and a series of 
historical portraits. A semi-circular colonnade connects the pavilion, be- 
longing itself, as far as the outside is concerned, to the Corinthian order, 
to another pavilion where is found the collections sent by the city of Paris. 
There is, the world over, no other city administration that spends more 
money for the welfare of its citizens. Schools, infant asylums, hospitals, 
sewers, streets, boulevards, avenues, public gardens, bridges, all these dif- 
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others is the one sent by Dr. Bertillon to illustrate his system of detecting 
criminals, however numerous and clever may be their aliases. The deco- 
rations of the pavilion's north front is quite remarkable. Under the portico, 




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views of the French capital adorn each bay, and the garden around the 
building has been designed by the chief gardener of the city of Paris. 
France also makes creditable exhibits in all the Departmejits. 

Germany. — The construction of the German Building has been with a 
view of making not only an imposing structure, worthy of the great nation 
it represents, but at the same time an essentially German house in its char- 
acteristics. Precedent and the dignity of such a power demanded that its 
representatives in a foreign country be housed in a manner to do credit to 
the Fatherland. Realizing these facts in Berlin much care was taken in 
constructing the "Deutsche Haus" in such a way as to do credit to Teuto- 
nia. It is situated in the northeastern portion of the grounds, facing the 
lake. It lies near the Swedish Building, and immediately east of the Illi- 
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northwest, and of the Fisheries, Manufactures and United States Govern- 
ment Buildings to the southwest. It is composed of Gothic, German 
renaissance and the modern styles of German architecture. The main 
building is 130x112 feet in breadth and depth, and is two stories high. To 
the longitudinal section of the main entrance a chapel-shaped structure has 
been attached, thus making the section 169 feet. Excellent architectural 
effect is produced by projections, which seem to be the natural outgrowth 
of the smooth walls, which, together with the high gable roof, which ascends 
to a quadrangular turret, and bell tower, 105 feet high, make a striking 
picture of architectural beauty. The dome of the tower is in the Byzantine 
style. The outer walls are of a massive appearance and are decorated with 
scenes in the style used in Muenchen and Nuremberg, representing master- 
works of the German art of bronze founding. The entire main front is of a 
light color, broken by reliefs similar to those on the Tucherhaus on Fried- 
rickstrasse in Berlin. The front shows the old German Imperial eagle from 
the time of the Hohaustaufen bearing a shield with the eagle of Prussia. 
Under the symbols of the new empire, the crown and scepter, are grouped 
the coat of arms of the various States of the German Union. The upper 
structure is vari-colored to the steep roof, which is covered with glazed 
tiles. Above the main entrance the visitor is welcomed by the following 
sentences: "Bountiful and Powerful;" "Rich in Corn and Wine;" "Full of 
Strength and Energy;" "Mother of the Sweetest Tunes and Home of the 
Greatest Thoughts;" "I Shall Sing Thy Praise, O Fatherland Mine." To 
the left of an elaborately ornamented hall are the reception room and offi- 
ces of the Imperial Commissioners. This high double hall is 42 feet high, 
the two divisions of which are separated by a colonnade 21 feet wide. The 
hall occupies, with the exception of the apartments referred to, the whole 
body of the main building and forms a longitudinal quadrangle 108 feet in 
breadth, covering a space of 7,569 square feet. This hall is occupied by the 
displays of the German book manufacturers, and the literature of the coun- 
try is fully represented. In the chapel-shaped annex, ecclesiastical art is 
displayed, showing altars, organs, etc. From the bell-tower the chimes 
exhibited by the society of Bochum peal forth their silvery strains. These 
chimes will be donated to Grace Church in Berlin after the close of the 
Exposition. 

This building and its contents form an attraction separate from the 
German village, which occupies 17,500 square feet on the north or Fifty- 
ninth street side of the Midway Plaisance where it is intersected by Kim- 
bark avenue. This village came from Germany in a shipment of over 6,000 
pieces, representing farm buildings, markets, shops, meeting hall and 
church, all in the style of the twelfth century. It contains many interesting 
antiquities from the German museum at Mayence. 

Beside being the official abode of the Imperial Commission, accommo- 
dations have been provided in the German Imperial Building for delegates 
from the German empire and as a resting place for the weary German sight- 
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The plans of the German Building were designed by the Imperial 
architect, but it owes its material existence in part to a number of patriotic 
manufacturers, who, inspired by the glory of their country, contributed freely 
in materials and money. 

Germany has an exhibit worth 40,000,000 marks, or over S10,000,000. 
Space was taken in nine different departments. 

Great Britain. — Great Britain's Building, which is officially known as 
"Victoria House," (so designated by special permission from Her Majesty, 
Queen Victoria) occupies a prominent position on the shore of the lake, 
near the pier. It is generally characteristic of the best type of English half- 
timber houses of the sixteenth^century. The upper portion is of half-timber 
construction in natural oak, with overhanging and projected gables and 
tiled roof. Terra-cotta is used extensively in the lower story, with red 
brick facing and mullioned windows, so as to be seen from all points; each 
facade has been treated architecturally. The plan forms three sides 
of a quadrangle, with the open side next to the lake, inclosed by a raised 
terrace with balustrade. The center on the front or inland side is 
recessed, with steps leading from both sides up to the covered portico, 
which opens into a large central hall. Off from one side of the hall are a 
library and reception rooms, and from the other side the secretary's office 
and other rooms required for the work of the commission. On the first 
floor are a large suite of rooms and offices. On the second floor are rooms 
for the meetings of juries, receptions, etc., for its own use and that of 
Colonial commissions. The walls and ceilings of the principal rooms are 
elaborately paneled after the fashion of old English country houses, and 
the fittings and furnishings were specially designed for the house. 

In the grand hall and staircase is a modeled plaster ceiling copied 
frcm one in Plas Mawr, Conway, North Wales, built about 1550, and 
generally known as "Queen Elizabeth's Place." Another plaster model, 
over the grand staircase and principal landing, is taken from one at 
Haddon Hall. Enriched plaster work is also seen in the paneling and 
chimney pieces. The furniture of carved oak is in the Italian style of the 
renaissance. A cassone is reproduced from an old Florentine example in 
the Royal Place at Naples and it is enriched with a painted frontal panel 
on gilt ground, in allegorical portrayment of the departure of Columbus 
from Spain. The remainder of the settees, tables and chairs are designed 
on similar ancient lines, some of the carvings being copied from examples 
that belong to the Medici family, now in the Piti Palace at Florence. In the 
reception room the modeled plaster ceiling is reproduced from that in the 
banqueting hall at Krewe Hall, the seat of Lord Krewe, and one of the 
finest examples of Elizabethan architecture in England. The library 
is entirely of oak. The ribbed ceiling is of geometrical form and the 
bookcases extend from floor to ceiling. The dining room contains a 
modeled plaster ceiling reproduced from the famous one in Campden 
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simpler treatment of a modern dining room of Elizabethan character. The 
embossed leather on the walls was first executed for the new ball room at 
Sandringham Hall for H. R. H., the Prince of Wales. The floors of the 
principal rooms are laid with hand-made real Axminster carpets. The 
whole house is tastefully ornamented with dog stoves and fireplace 
fittings, grates and over-mantels, floor mats, etc., and the walls are hand- 
somely decorated with banners. In the vestibule are two terra cotta 
panels, "The Prodigal Son" and "Pharaho at the Red Sea," while in the 
garden and grounds are a handsome fountain and a large group of America 
executed in terra cotta. The space occupied by Great Britain and the 
Colonies in the buildings and grounds amounts to more than 500,000 
square feet, of which about three-fifths is occupied by Great Britain, This 
is the largest area ever occupied by the British Section at any foreign in- 
ternational exhibition. At Vienna, 1874, the space occupied was 169,827 
square feet; at Philadelphia, 1876, 194,381; at Paris, 1878, 363,018; at Paris, 
1889, 232,845. Exhibits are made in the following buildings: Agriculture, 
Forestry, Live Stock, Fisheries, Mines and Mining, Machinery, Transpor- 
tation, Manufactures and Liberal Arts, Electricity, Fine Arts and Woman's 
Building. 

Greece. — The exhibit made by Greece consists largely of wines, 
liquors, figs and raisins. There are twenty-five contributions of the first, 
twenty of liquors, and a dozen firms showing dried fruits. Greece has taken 
an unusual interest in the Columbian Exposition, and a large number of 
people from Athens and the leading cities will visit America this summer. 

Guatemala. — The Guatemala Building is square, with 111 feet at each 
side, and occupies a total area of 12,500 feet. The architecture is original, 
but in no way classical. It is kept in Spanish style, and corresponds well 
with the country it represents. The height of the first floor is 24 feet. In 
the center of the building a large court is arranged, 33x33 feet, with a gal- 
lery built upon colonnades of two floors. This court resembles the old 
patios in a Spanish house, and gives freshness and ventilation in the entire 
structure. In the center of the court there is a fountain from which the 
water plays as from a big rock. On each of the four corners of the building 
there is a tower 23x23 feet, surmounted by 'a beautifully decorated dome. 
The entire height of each tower is 65 feet. In two of the towers there are 
two large staircases, giving access to the gallery above, which extends as a 
terrace around the entire building. The construction is in wood, iron and 
staff, and the ornaments represent fruits and flowers, all in an original and 
light character. There are four large rooms on the first floor, and on the 
second floor a large reception room, with two offices and toilet rooms. All 
the exhibits from Guatemala will be found in this building, the most inter- 
esting of which is coffee, and how it is cultivated and marketed. At a dis- 
tance of about thirty-five feet from the main building is a rustic hut, 70x25 
feet, and at the end of the same is a small kiosk, adapted for testing the 
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representing a coffee plantation, banana trees and other plants. Indian 
tents are placed in a corner of the grounds, and a landing place has been 




BUILDING OF GUATAMALA. 

constructed opposite the principal entrance on the lagoon. The building 
cost $40,000. 

Hayti. — The Hayti Building lies to the southwest of the German Build- 
ing and adjoining that of New South Wales. It is in the Greco-Colonial 
style, surmounted by a gilded dome, which is copied after the State capitol 
of Massachusetts. The structure has a frontage of 126 feet, including 
piazzas 12 feet wide which surround three sides of the building. In the 
center of the facade is the coat-of-arms of the Republic of Hayti in a medal- 
lion surrounded by a scroll bearing the following inscription: '' RePubliqiie 
Haitienne" and the dates 1492 (the discovery), 1804 (date of Haytian nat* 
ional independence), and 1893 (the present anniversary). On entering the 
building one comes into an exhibition hall 50x50 feet, in the center of which 
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sist principally of red and blue bunting, the national colors, with flags and 
escutcheons. The exhibits in the pavilion consist principally of agricul- 
tural and forestry products, with some specimens of native industry in a 
general way. There is also displayed some pre-Columbian relics and the 
authentic anchor of the caravel Santa Maria, the mate to which was loaned 
by the Haytians to the Columbus collection in the Convent of La Rabida. 
The sword of Toussaint L'Ouverture is also shown among other .relics of 
the struggle for independence. Opening from the main hall through a ten- 
foot archway is another exposition hall, at the rear of which Haytian coffee, 




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prepared by native hands, is served. The entire left wing is given up for 
reception rooms and executive offices. 

Honduras. — Honduras makes a collective exhibit in the Department of 
Agriculture, and shows specimens of cigars, tobacco and sarsaparilla. Very 
interesting Kopan relics of Honduras are exhibited in the Anthropological 
Building. 

India. — The East India Pavilion is a rectangular building of staff, 80x 
60 feet. It is entered through a lofty gateway surmounted by four minarets, 
and is profusely ornamented in an elaborate arabasque design. The gate- 
way, as is customary in structures of this style, forms the principal archi- 
tectural feature of the building, and it is here that the ornamentation is 
most fully carried out, and is reinforced by paintings in vivid oriental col- 
ors in strict keeping with the design followed, the whole having a rich and 
harmonious effect. On either side of the entrance are arcades lavishly 
decorated with relief work, bracelet and ornamentation. The mmarets 
surmounting the gateway are repeated at the corners of the building, and 
spring from a parapet, the panels of which are covered with designs. Be- 
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characteristic feature of the style followed. Internally the pavilion con- 
sists of a large hall, lighted from above, -^.nd with a broad gallery running 
round it on three sides to which access is given by the staircases. The 
building is erected by the Indian Tea Association of Calcutta, at a cost of 
$15,000, to contain exhibits of tea grown in different provinces of India. 
Here tea of every kind is displayed and is distributed in the cup. It is 
served by Indian waiters in Indian costumes. An original collection of 
photographs especially made for the purpose, is exhibited, showing the 
manufacture of tea at various stages. The tea industry is one of the most 
important in India, giving employment to thousands of people. Some of 
the wildest tracts of the country have been reclaimed from a state of virgin 
forest and converted into thriving gardens by the energy and capital of tea 




BUILDING OF EAST INDIA. 

planters, and within the last thirty years the production of tea in India has 
arisen to one hundred million pounds in weight. Exhibitors from Delhi, 
Bombay, Calcutta and Sinila, show many art-manufactures of India and 
Burmah, as well as those of the governments of Their Highnesses, the Hi- 
zam of Hyderabad, and the Maharajas of Mysore, Patiala and Jodhpore, 

Italy.— Italy occupies in all the departments to which she contributes 
about 70,000 square feet. The entire number of Italian exhibitors exceeds 
1,500, of whom 665 make exhibits in the departments of Manufactures and 
Agriculture. The exhibits sent here by Italy and exhibited in the Manu- 
factures section, are very largely works of industrial art, such as bronzes, 
marble for construction and decorative purposes, tapestries, embroideries, 
silken fabrics, Venetian glass, Venetian laces, cabinet-ware, inlaid wood- 
work, mosaics, jewelry, intaglio works, coral, etc.; specialties in manufact- 
ured delicacies for the table, such as sardines, spiced tongues, fish and 

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dainties of a like character. Exhibits are also made in all the other depart- 
ments. 

Japan. — The Japanese Building on the wooded island is modeled after 
the main plan of the Hoo-do (Phoenix Temple), hence called Hoo-den, and 
consists of three separate buildings connected by wide corridors. They 
represent respectively the styles of three different epochs of Japanese his- 
tory, but are unified by the general architectural design. The south wing 
is in the style of the Ashikaga period of about four hundred years ago. 




BUILDING OF JAPAN. 



The north wing is in the style of the most prosperous time of the Fujiwara 
period of about eight hundred and fifty years ago. The main hall repre- 
sents the style of the Tokugawa period of about one hundred and fifty years 
ago. These buildings follow the general ground plan of the original 
Hoo-do, which is one of the famous historic temples built eight hundred and 
•forty-two years ago, and is still existing at Uji, the district noted for tea 
plantations, near Kyoto. These buildings are of unpainted wood, and the 



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principle of Japanese construction and proportion is wholly adopted. The 
roofs of the same are covered with sheet copper according to the Japanese 
method. The floors, excepting that of the north wing, are furnished with 
thick mats, while the latter is covered with boards. The ceilings of the 
main hall, except two side rooms, are divided into small, square panels of 
lacquered boards, and each of these is painted to correspond with the 
adjoining parts, while those of of the two rooms are elaborately painted 
with figures of the Phoenix in gold and other colors. The wall space and 
surface of the sliding doors in every room are decorated with paintings of 
the same subject, the Phcenix, to suit each room. The work of interior 
decoration was undertaken by the Tokyo Art Academy, and the furniture 
and art works in the exhibition are selected by the Imperial Museum. All 
represent the three epochs to which they belong. The principal design of 
the building was made by Masamichi Kuru, the government architect of 
Japan, and the builders are Okura & Co., who have sent a number of their 
workmen to Chicago. Japan's exhibit in the Woman's Building is one of 
the most interesting of the Exposition. A space of 800 square feet at the 
left side of the entrance at the northern part of the buildmg is occupied by 
an exhibition of Japanese women's work, including pictures (pure Japanese 
style), oil paintings, carvings, cocoons, raw silk, fabrics, embroideries, 
crinkled textures and cr3.pes, yuzen (a Japanese fabric), hand-woven Gob- 
elin, oskie (relief pictures), lace, china ware and china painting, cloisonne, 
lacquer, artificial flowers. There is also a lady's boudoir shown, all strictly 
in Japanese style and specially prepared in Japan. Japan also has a hand- 
some pagoda in the Manufactures Building; a good exhibit in the Fisheries, 
and a garden in Horticultural Hall transplanted from Japan. Exhibits are 
made in all the other departments. 

Jamaica. — Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, cocoa, coffee, chocolate, 
Kola beans and powder, sugar, ginger, pepper; nutmegs, assorted fibres, 
kuskus grass, aerated waters, rums, cordials, wines, rice, starch, tapioca, 
arrowroot, cassava cakes, banana meal, oils, pimento, pickles, native woods, 
India rubber, seeds, etc., are shown from the Island of Jamaica in the 
Department of Agriculture. 

There are three groups in the Department of Mines and Mining em- 
bracing clays, pottery sand, salt, ochre and copper. 

In the Department of Manufactures exhibits are made of drugs and 
pharmaceutical preparations, extracts, dentifrices, essential oils, fancy 
work, pottery, mats and baskets, hats, fibre work, leather, etc. 

The history and laws of Jamaica, vital statistics, photographic views, 
law books and maps are shown in the Department of Liberal Arts. 

Johore. — A collective exhibit is made in the Agricultural Building, 
besides an outside space. It consists of krisses and seirongs, agricultural 
implements, weights, measures and coins, native woods, hides and skins, 
stuffed birds, and the Indian bungalo, which is a conspicuous feature. The 
tea culture of Johore is exemplified in a fine exhibit of teas shown in the 
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Korea. — Manufactures is the department in which the principal 
Korean exhibits may be seen. These include fabrics, silk and cotton, 
grass cloths, hemp, lion and tiger skins, furs, deers' horns, implements of 
war and the chase, household ware, utensils, native costumes, inlaid ware 
bric-a-brac, and, curios. Some very large sedan chairs peculiar to the 
country are also included in the collection. Minerals from the kingdom 
are also exhibited. 

Liberia. — Liberia makes an unclassified collective exhibit, installed in 
in Agricultural Building. Here, from the various tribes, are shown speci- 
mens of iron, fishing contrivances, canoes, charms, quaint musical instrH- 
ments, ivory, idols, books of the Koran, jewelry, skins of native animals, 
oils, seeds, cane sugar and syrups, pepper, medicinal plants, nuts, native 
dyes, coins, minerals, dirks and knives, spears, bows and arrows, rice and 
coffee, palm oil, palm kernels, arrowroot, camwood, hardwoods, ivories and 
various articles showing the manners, customs and habits of the natives. 
The principal article is the Liberian coffee, which is a peculiar species, and 
has received the name of coffee Liberiansis by coffee experts. A pecu- 
liarly interesting exhibit, unique because of its rarity is a finely mounted 
specimen of a "hippopottamus Liberiansis." This animal was supposed to 
have long since passed out of the animal world. There are but two other 
specimens, one in London and one in Paris. The specimen was prepared 
by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and will be returned 
to that institution after the Exposition. Liberia is the only civilized Chris- 
tian negro state in Africa, and is exerting a wide influence in the enlighten- 
ment of those parts of the continent with which it comes in contact. 

Mexico. — In the Department of Mines and Mining Mexico has made 
an exhibit which will astonish the world with the extent and wealth of the 
mining in that country. It consists of gold silver, and copper ores, and in 
the consignment received and installed in the Mines Building there were 
300 cases, and they averaged over 1,000 pounds each. jMexico also makes 
very creditable displays in nearly all the other departmental buildings. In 
the Department of Agriculture the raw products of the country, principally 
coffee and sugar, are shown. In the Department of Transportation Ex- 
hibits a fine display is made by the Mexican Central Railroad. Ore crush- 
ing and sugar machinery are shown in Machinery Hall. In the Depart- 
ment of Manufactures and Liberal Arts ]\Iexico has 5,443 square feet, and 
the various manufacturing industries of the republic, and the educational 
and internal affairs of the government are there exhibited. Mme. Diaz, 
the wife of President Diaz, has taken deep interest in the Woman's Depart- 
ment of the Exposition, and Mexico's display in this department is attract- 
ive and interesting. 

Monaco. — This little principality has a collective exhibit in the Depart- 
ment of Electricity, and it consists in the main of tapestry, silverware and 
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Netherlands.— The Netherlands exhibit in the following departments: 
Agricultural, Horticultural, Fisheries, Transportation, Manufactures and 
Fine Arts. 

The exhibit in the Agricultural department consists of sweet chocolate, 
cocoa, Dutch cake, arack, rum, gin, cordials, liquors, indigo and kapok. 

The exhibit in the Horticultural department is entirely outside of the 
building and on the Wooded Island. It consists of a beautiful collection 
of roses, Darwin tulips, bulbs, climbing plants, trees and shrubs. 




BUILDING OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 

In the Fisheries department is exhibited an artistic herring boat, in full 
sailing order as seen on the ocean, at one-seventh of its original size. 

In the Transportation Exhibits department is exhibited a collection 
sent by the Royal Institute of Engineers of Holland, showing the different 
waterways and public works of that country; there are also model Dutch 
sailing vessels on exhibition. 

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porcelain, painted porcelain, tiles, mantel decorations, porcelain panels, 
marble statues, metal vases, church ornaments and windows, prescription 
and chemists' scales, imitations of wood and marble, etc. 

In the Department of Fine Arts there is a fine collection of paintings of 
modern Dutch masters, contributed by 138 artists and containing 189 paint- 
ings, 108 drawings and 72 etchings. This collection is more important 
than the one sent to Paris in 1889. 

In addition to this the Netherlands East Indian Colonies have in the 
Agricultural Building a pavilion, made of bamboo, nicely decorated, in 
which are exhibited the products of those colonies, consisting of rice, flour, 
cane sugar, palm sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, pepper, cloves, cinnamon and 
other spices, tobacco, indigo, kapok and tin. 

New South Wales. — The New South Wales Building is classical in 
design and ornamentation. It covers an area of 4,320 square feet, being 
60x60 feet in exterior dimensions, with a portico 12 feet wide extending 
across the front. There is a flight of three steps leading to this portico and 
extending across the front and ends of the same. The roof of this portico 
is supported by six Doric columns, two feet and six inches in diameter, 
and twenty feet high, with a cornice, frieze and balustrade extending round 
the entire building. At each of the corners is a large Doric pilaster cor- 
responding to the columns of the portico. The entrance is in the center of 
the portico front. All openings have molded architraves and cornices, 
and each window has a pair of molded medallions under it. The exter- 
ior of the building is staff. The central portion is occupied by a hall thirty 
feet in width, and extending the entire depth of the building. In the cen- 
ter is a polygonal dome thirty feet in diameter, the top being forty feet 
from the floor. This dome adds to the effect, light and ventilation of the 
whole, and is covered on the interior with ornamental staff. Arranged on 
three sides of the main hall are the various offices of the legation, eight in 
number. Exhibits are made in the departments of Agriculture and Mines 
and Mining. 

Norway. — The pavilion of Norway is located in the northeast end of 
the Park between the Fine Arts Building and the pavilion of France. Its 
style of architecture is of the old Norse, so called Stane-kirke, which dates 
from the eleventh century, and of which examples are still to be found in 
several old church buildings preserved in Norway as memorials from cen- 
turies ago. The historical dragon heads, which adorned the Viking ships 
of that and earlier periods, will be recognized in the similarly ornamented 
gables of the pavilion. 

The building is 24x40 feet and is used as headquarters for Norwegians 
and as an office for the Norwegian Commission. 

The Norwegian exhibit is found principally in the Department of Ag- 
riculture. It consists mainly of cheese, beers and ale, liquors bitters, pure 
spirits, whalebone, whale guano and other sea and whale products, oils, 
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In the Department of Horticulture are preserved vegetables, pickles, 



etc. 



Fish products, aquatic birds, nets, seines, hooks, lines, harpoons and 
equipments for whales and porpoises, foghorns and lanterns, skin and oil 
clothing and equipments, cured fish, cod liver oil, stearine, preserved fish, 
etc., peculiar to the fish industry of Norway, are shown in the Department 
of Fish and Fisheries. 




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BtJTLDIXG OF NORWAY. 

In the Department of Transportation Exhibits are shown models of 
locomotive and railway cars, blocks and dead-eyes, mail wagons, sleighs, 
kariols, etc. 

Wood-carving, beer tankards, drinking horns, portieres, wall hangings, 
jewelry, silver and gilt table ware, gold ornaments, diamond jewelry, 
watches, rugs, gloves, embroideries, brushes, dolls, stoves, mud protectors, 
etc.,a re shown in the Department of Manufactures. 



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Books, school material, publications and Norwegian statistics, draw- 
ings and desk for deaf mutes, reports and charts of Arctic expeditions, 
photos of scenery, statistical maps of mining and commerce, musical in- 
struments, etc., are shown in the Department of Liberal Arts. 

Orange Free State. — An exhibit of uncut diamonds is made by Orange 
Free State in the Department of Mines and Mining. 

Paraguay. — Although any one coming to the Exposition from Para- 
guay must traverse the Atlantic twice and travel a dozen thousand miles, a 
number of visitors from that country are coming. In making the trip it is 
necessary to go to Italy, where a vessel can be taken for New York. Par- 
aguay makes an interesting exhibit in the Department of Agriculture, the 
object being to show what an immense commerce could be maintained 
between that country and this — trade that now benefits Europe. With ves- 
sels making the trip direct, both the countries would be very materially 
benefited. 

Persia. — Persia exhibits rugs, armors, carpets, etc., in the Department 
of Manufactures. 

Portugal. — Portugal makes one of the largest and finest displays of 
wines to be found in the section of viticulture. It consists of fine old port, 
Madeira, sherry and champagnes in casks and bottles. 

Russia. — The exhibits in the various departments made by Russia are 
valued at $500,000. In the Department of Mines and Mining diamonds are 
a conspicuous feature of the Russian exhibit. 

Russian paintings, statuary and other specimens of fine arts are 
exhibited in the art galleries, while in the departments of Manufactures 
and Transportation Exhibits many specimens of Russian handiwork are 
shown. Exhibits are also made in all the other departments. 

Siam. — Siam's exhibit is mostly of the products of the soil and manu- 
facture; specimens of woods, and especially of teak, which is used exten- 
sively in ship building, are shown. One piece is six feet broad, which is 
quite a curiosity. Exhibits of carving in ivory, work in brass, native vege- 
tables and various fancy articles of manufacture are also made. The 
wife of the Siamese commissioner has charge of the exhibits of the 
women of Siam. The exhibit is mostly of fancy work, crocheting and 
needlework. The King appropriated $35,000 for the purpose of arranging 
the exhibit. 

Spain. — The Spanish Building, which is modeled after the Casa Lonja 
of Valencia, shows only parts of the original building, the column hall and 
the tower having been reduced in proportion to three-fourths of the orig- 
inal, which was erected before the date of the discovery of America. The 
structure has a frontage of 84 feet, 6 inches. There are three floors, two of 
which are occupied by the Royal Commission. The space is distributed in 
three naves longitudinally and five naves transversely, corresponding to 
eight pillars in the center, with quarters and halves in the lateral walls and 
corners, forming in all fifteen vaults. The ornaments represent the church 



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magistracy, military and the arts; also the agricultural, commercial and 
industrial pursuits of the kingdom. The material is wood and staff. 

The general exhibits made by Spain outrank anything that country 
did at the Centennial or the last two Paris Expositions. The wealthy men 
of Spain whose wine cellars are famous at home took so much interest in 
the exhibit as to send over 12,000 bottles of their choicest collections. This 
forms a portion of the wine display. 

In the Fine Arts Palace are shown forty-six oil paintings and twenty- 
two sculptures from Barcelona, besides many architectural works and 
engravings. To round out the exhibit of manufactures, the displays made 
recently at a special exhibition at Barcelona were shipped here. 




BUILDING OF SPAIN. 



First-class exhibits are made in the Departments of Machinery and 
Electricity. 

In the Transportation Exhibits Department the Marquis of Comillas, 
President of the Spanish Transatlantic Company, alone took all the space 
assigned to Spain, and the many models of ancient and modern naval 
architecture are provided for. 

The agricultural display comprises 6,605 square feet. Exhibits for 
this department come from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands and 
the coast of Guinea. These provitices show samples of coffee, sugar, min- 
eral waters, preserves, tobacco, manila hemp, cocoa, chocolate, etc. 



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In the Department of Ethnology Spain occupies 10,000 feet. It has 
also the chapel of the Convent of La Rabida, and space in the Woman's 
Building. Her Majesty, the Queen Regent, is the President of the Span- 
ish Woman's Commission and personally superintends the work. 

St. Thomas. — The exhibit made by the Island of St, Thomas is a most 
complete relief map of the island. It is shown in the Department of Trans- 
portation Exhibits. 

Sweden. — The Swedish Building, which is located to the northeast of 
the Fisheries and between the lagoon and the lake, is one of the handsomest 
of all the foreign buildings. The space alloted Sweden was triangular in 
shape, and the building was made to conform to the space in order to 
utilize it to the utmost. A hexagon was inscribed at the center of the space, 
and there the main hall was located. In the three corners are rooms of 
considerable size. Galleries run around the building. The main hall is 
sixty-five feet across, and the pitch of the cupola, which rises above it, is 
seventy feet, and above the cupola, is the spire. The Swedish flag is un- 
furled from the flagstaff above the spire 150 feet from the ground. The en- 
tire area of the floor is 11,000 square feet. The building was constructed in 
Sweden, where it was temporarily put together. Afterward it was taken 
apart and brought to Chicago. It cost $40,000. The design of the building 
is partly the product of the architect's personal taste and fancy, but in 
working out the drawines he has to a great extent allowed himself to be 
guided by the style of Swedish churches and gentlemen's houses of the 
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As far as possible the characteristics 
of old Swedish architecture have been retained. The lower part of the 
front wall of the building forms an exhibit of its own, consisting of modern 
brick, terra-cotta, and cement work from the most prominent manufactur- 
ers of Sweden. The remainder the building is entirely of wood, all the 
work being done by the Eskelstuna Iraforadlingsaktiebolag in Sweden. 
Following the old Swedish fashion, the whole of the roof and the walls are 
covered with shingles. The outside of the wood work is impregnated with 
a preserving liquid to prevent decay. The inside of the pavilion is painted 
in light colors and richly decorated with bunting, coats of arms and crests. 
A fine exhibit of the world-famed Swedish iron ore is made. A display of 
the manufactured products of iron, china goods and glass products are 
well represented in the pavilion. There is also a display of gold and silver- 
ware and wood pulp products. A further attraction is the excellent repre- 
sentation of a genuine Swedish home with beautiful suites of furniture and 
highly artistic drapery. Exactly opposite the main entiance of the build- 
ing is a large picture of the capital of Sweden, "the Venice of the North," 
with its famous royal castle. Wax figures stand in front of this picture 
dressed in the picturesque garb of the Swedes, and to one side is a pano- 
rama of Swedish lanscape, while the other side is occupied b^ a Swedish 
peasant's cottage. In the outdoor sports exhibit are skates, snow shoes, 
sleighs, canoes and yachts. A carefully executed bust of Gustavus Adol- 



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phus II has also been placed in this room. In the galleries are gathered 
exhibits illustrative of the school system, which are admittedly of the first 
rank. Embroideries and needle work displays attract lady visitors, who 
will also be pleased with the Swedish women's work in the Woman's Build- 




BUILDIxa OP SWEDEN. 



ing under the patronage of her Majesty the Queen of Sweden and Norway. 
The office of the Chief Swedish commissioner, Mr. Arthur Leffler, is at the 
north end of the Swedish Building. Exhibits from the Scandinavian penin- 
sula will also be found in the Agricultural and Machinery Halls and in the 



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Fine Arts Gallery. Exhibits are made in the departments of Agrlcult 
and Mines and Mining. 

Switzerland. — In the Manufactures Building the display of Switzer- 
land is one of the most attractive. This exhibit is placed at the south end 
and is reached through an arch, over which is the Swiss cross in bright red. 
All around the three sides of the square are pictures of the Swiss Alps. 
The pictures are done in colored crayons, are realistically beautiful and 
can hardly be told from oil paintings. They represent scenes well known to 
travelers. In the foreground of many of the scenes are shown pastoral 
scenes of the table lands. The pavilions contain all of that rare handiwork 
for which the people are famous, and in one corner is shown a family of 
Swiss watchmakers, where every one down to the baby is at work. The 
baby's share of the work is done with its rattle. The delicate little wheels 
are put inthe rattle wnth emery dust, and while the baby amuses itself by 
pounding the toy it polishes the wheels. 

Trinidad. — The Island of Trinidad makes a collective exhibit in the 
Department of Agriculture. It is made up of agricultural products of the 
island, dye-woods, etc. 

Turkey. — Turkey's principal exhibit is made in the Turkish Building 
which adjoins that of Brazil on the east and lies between the Fine Arts and 
Fisheries Buildings. In this structure a miniature exhibit is made of the 
resources of the Ottoman Empire, consisting of twelve sections, in which 
are shown textile fabrics, gold, silver, and other minerals, munitions of war, 
electrical appliances, an- 
tiquities, all the natural 
agricultural products, 
silks, dye-stuffs, and, in 
brief, small samples of 
nearly every industry of 
the country. Exhibits 
are also made in the De- 
partment of Manufac- 
tures, consisting princi- 
pally of oriental rugs and 
filigree jewelry; in the 
Department of Trans- 
portation Exhibits, in 
which caiques, sedan 
chairs, bullock carts, etc., 
are shown, and in the 
Woman's Department, 

where embroideries made by the women of Turkey, are an interesting 
feature. 

The Turkish Building is in the Moresque style and is in imitation 
of the Hunkhar Casque (or fountain) of Sultan Ahmed III, which is opposite 




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the Babi Humayon in Constantinople, and which corresponds with the 
capitol at Washington, the seat of government. The structure is 80 by 
100 feet in dimensions, and is surmounted in the center by a dome. There 
are also smaller domes at each of the four corners. The exterior is covered 
in Damascan carved wood, made especially in Damascus and brought 
here for the purpose. The interior is a large exhibition hall, decorated 
with tapestries. There are small exhibition rooms in each of the four cor- 




BUILDINa OF TUKKEY. 

ners, and office of the commissioners is in a separate building to the rear 
of the main building. 

Uruguay. — The government of Uruguay appropriated $24,000 for Ex- 
position purposes, which, considering its financial condition, was remarkably 
liberal. A fine exhibit of wines, agricultural products and articles of manu- 
facture was gathered together. Space was secured in nearly every de- 
partment and a fine exhibit of the products of the country is made. 

Venezuela.— The building of the Republic of Venezuela occupies a 
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is square, 36x36 feet and the two wings on each side are 21x30 feet, which 
makes an entire frontage of 78 feet. It is crowned by a dome in iron and 
glass, 30 feet in diameter and 12 feet high which makes the building 45 feet 
high. The two side parts are also crowed by a dome with four sides. On 
the left tower a statue of bronze of Columbus has been placed; and on the 
right one of Bolivar. Both these statues are nine feet high and weigh 2,000 
pound each. The interior of the building is richly decorated with drap- 
ings and vellum, and contains show cases, reception and toilet rooms, 
etc. The architecture is in the style of a Graeco-Roman temple finished in 




BUILDING OF VENEZUELA. 

imitation marble. There are six entrances, three in the front and three in 
the rear. The principal side faces the main entrances to the Fisheries 
Building, surrounded by a pretty garden with tropical plants imported for 
the occasion. Exhibits from Venezuela may be seen in the departments 
of Agriculture, Horticulture, Mines, Manufactures, Liberal Arts and Fine 
Arts, consisting of leather exhibits, relief of scientific treatises of medi- 
cines, and mementoes of home glories, such as the sword of Bolivar, flag of 
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT. 



[For Details of all the Exhibits made by the United States Govern- 
ment, see Official Catalogues,] 

In accordance with the Act of Congress, approved April 25, 1890, the 
Executive Departments of the United States Government make an interest- 
ing and creditable display, under the auspices or a Board of Management 
and Control, composed of government officials appointed from the several 
departments. A magnificent building has been erected for these collective 
exhibits. It is located near the lake, south of the main lagoon and of the 
area reserved for the foreign nations and the several States, and east of the 
Woman's Building and of Midway Plaisance. It is classic in style and 
bears a strong resemblance to the National Museum and other government 
buildings at Washington. It covers an area of 350x420 feet, is constructed 
cf iron, brick and glass, and cost $450,000. Its leading architectural feature 
is a central octagonal dome* 120 feet in diameter and 150 feet high. The 
building fronts to the west, and connects on the north by a bridge over the 
lagoon, with the building of the Fisheries exhibit. 

The south half of the Government Building is devoted to the exhibits 
of the Postoffice department, Treasury department. War department and 
Department of Agriculture. The north half is devoted to the exhibits of 
the Fisheries Commission, Smithsonian Institution and Interior depart- 
ment. The State department exhibit extends from the rotunda to the east 
end, and that of the Department of Justice from the rotunda to the west 
end of the building. The allotment of space for the several department 
exhibits is: War Department, 23,000 square feet; Treasury, 10,500 square 
feet; Agriculture, 23,250 square feet; Interior, 24,000 square feet; Postoffice, 
9,000 square feet; Fisheries, 20,000 square feet, and Smithsonian Institution 
balance of space. 

Naval Exhibit. — This exhibit is made outside the United States Gov- 
ernment Building. A structure, which to all outward appearance is a full- 
sized modern battle-ship, has been erected on piling on the lake front in 
the northeast portion of the grounds. It is surrounded by water and has 
the appearance of being moored to a wharf. The structure has all the fit- 
tings that belong to the actual ship,such as guns,, turrets, torpedo tubes, tor- 
pedo nets and booms, with boats, anchors, chain cables, davits, awnings, 
deck fittings; etc.. together with all appliancesfor working the same. Offi- 

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cers, seamen, mechanics and marines are detailed by the Navy Department 
during the Exposition, and the discipline and mode of life on our naval 
vessels are completely shown. The detail of men is not, however, as great 
as the complement of the actual ship. The crew gives certain drills, espe- 
cially boat, torpedo, and gun drills, as in a vessel of war. 

The dimensions of the structure are those of the actual battleship, 
to-wit: length, 348 feet; width amidships, 69 feet, 3 inches; and from the 
water line to the top of the main deck, 12 feet. Centrally placed on this 
deck is a superstructure 8 feet high with a hammock berthing on the same 
7 feet high, and above these are the bridge, chart-house and the boats. 

At the forward end of the superstructure there is a cone-shaped tower, 
called the "military mast," near the top of which are placed two circular 
"tops" as receptacles for sharpshooters. Rapid-firing guns are mounted in 




BATTLESHIP ILLINOIS. 

each of these tops. The height from the water line to the summit of this 
military mast is 76 feet, and above is placed a flagstaff for signaling. 

The battery mounted comprises four 13-inch breech-loading rifle can- 
non; eight 8-inch breech-loading rifle cannon; four 6-inch breech-loading 
rifle cannon; twenty 6-pound rapid-firing guns; six 1-pound rapid-firing 
guns; two Catling guns, and six torpedo tubes or torpedo guns. All of 
these are placed and mounted respectively as in the genuine battle-ship. 

On the starboard side of the ship is shown the torpedo protection net, 
stretching the entire length of the vessel. Steam launches and cutters ride 
at the booms, and all the outward appearance of a real snip of war is 
imitated. 

The superstructure shows the cabins, staterooms, lavatories, lactrines, 
messrooms, galley and fittings, mess-table for crew, lockers, berthing.s etc • 

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also the manner in which officers and enlisted men live, according to 
the rules of the Navy. On the superstructure deck and bridge is shown the 
manner in which the rapid-firing guns, search lights, boats, etc., are 
handled. The entrance to the conning tower is from the deck, in which 
are all the appurtenances that the captain has at his disposal when taking 
the ship into battle and during the progress of a fight at sea. 

An electric light plant is installed and provision made for heating 
with steam. On the berth deck are shown the various fittings pertaining 
to the hull, machinery and ordnance; ordnance implements, including 
electrical devices, gun-carriage motors and range finders; models showing 
typical ships of the past and present; samples of the provisions, cloth- 
ing, stores and supplies, bunting, flags, etc.; in short, the thousand and 
one things that go to make up the outfit of a man-of-war. 

The traditional costumes of the sailors of the Navy from 1775 to 
1848 are shown by men dressed in those costumes. 

United States Weather Bureau. — This building stands northeast 
of the Government Building. It is a wooden structure, covered with cement 
to resemble cut stone, and is two stories with tower. In size it is 40x50 feet. 
The first floor is used for meteorological apparatus and the printing of 
weather maps. The second floor is used for a hall, one end having a plat- 
form from which is given stereoptican views and lectures on meteorologi- 
cal subjects and the forecasting of the weather. The tower is used for ob- 
servation and meteorological instruments. Cost of building, $5,965. 

Life Saving Station. — Located on the edge of the north pond, to the 
east of the Illinois State Building, is the Life Saving Station, which is 
equipped with every appliance, and a regular crew goes through all life- 
saving manoeuvers. The station consists, of a one and one-half story frame 
building, 67x35 feet, with covering of shingles and clapboards. The gables 
are treated with overhanging ends. A portion of the roof is truncated, 
protected by a handrailing, forming a lookout deck, which connects with a 
small rectangular watch tower. The general treatment is Colonial. The 
structure combines a dwelling for the crew together with a boat and appa- 
ratus room. The dwelling portion is surrounded by a broad uncovered 
platform with railing. On the east side is the entrance porch. The dwell- 
ing contains, on first floor, four living-rooms, also hall, entry, pantry, closets, 
etc. Above are sleeping quarters for the crew, spare-room, clothes-room, 
storage, lavatory, etc. A circular iron staircase, from the second floor, leads 
to the watch tower and lookout deck. The boat-room is on the first floor, 
37 feet, 6 inches by 34 feet, 2 inches, fitted with closets, and arranged to ac- 
commodate two or more life-boats, together with the complete apparatus 
used for life saving purposes. On the west side the boat-room connects 
with the water by a launchway. The boats, with crews aboard, run by 
gravity to take the water. As this is a permanent station for the United 
States Life-saving Service, and will so remain after the closing of the Ex- 
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general design. Its cost, exclusive of apparatus and furnishings, was 
$10,000. 

Lighthouse Exhibit. — The exhibit made by the United States Light- 
house Board is the tower constructed for the Waackaack lighthouse, New 
Jersey. It is located on the north pond, directly north of the Fisheries 
Building. It is an iron skeleton structure, surmounted by a parapet and a 
lantern, accessible from below by a spiral stairway inclosed in a cast-iron 
cylinder. The skeleton structure, which rests upon eight circular founda- 
tion disks anchored to a concrete foundation, is composed of columns, 
sockets, struts and tension rods, forming a frustum of a square pyramid, 
bounded on top by an architrave supporting an octogonal gallery, a circu- 
lar parapet and a decagonal lantern. The frustum has a base 28 feet 
square; its height is 84 feet to the lower face of the architrave, where its 
sides form a square of 8 feet, 8 inches on each side. 

United States Government Board of Management and Con- 
trol. — This board is authorized by Section 16 of the Act of April 25, 1890, 
and consists of one representative from each executive department, from 
the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and from the Fish Com- 
mission. The chairman of the board is appointed by the President of the 
United States and the board itself is given authority to select such other 
officers as it may deem necessary. The members of this board serve with- 
out compensation other than their regular pay as government officials. 

Colonial Exhibit. — The Colonial exhibit is made in the United States 
Government Building. Mrs. Ralph Trautman of New York City, Mrs Sal- 
lie Cotton of North Carolina, and Mrs. George Wilson Kidder of Wilming- 
ton, N. C, formed the committee from the Board of Lady Managers to 
obtain space for the display in the Government Building. The committee 
was assisted by Mrs. Gillespie of Philadelphia, a great grand-daughter of 
Benjamin Franklin, who was president of the women's section of the Cen- 
tennial. These ladies personally secured the aid of President Cleveland 
and the Cabinet officers, and secured space for their exhibit in the dome of 
the building. One of the conditions made by Secretary Gresham when he 
endorsed the project was that each item of the display should have historic 
value as well as personal interest. The Board of Lady Manager installed 
the Colonial exhibit in six of the arches of the dome. The two remaining 
arches are occupied by the Declaration of Independence and the original 
Constitution of the thirteen original States. No two objects within the Ex- 
position attract more attention than these, nor are more closely guarded, 
consequently the owners of the Colonial relics may feel particularly assured 
that their treasures are under the government's protection. The six arches 
are equally proportioned among the thirteen original States participating 
in the Colonial exhibit, their respective flags and State coat-of-arms indicat- 
ing the location of each. North Carolina made liberaf provision for her 
participation in the exhibit, and New York appropriated $10,000 to her 
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ROSTER OF OFFICERS. 

Officers of the World's Columbian Exposition. — Incorporated 
as a legal body under the laws of the state of Illinois, and one of the 
agencies provided for in the act of Congress creating the Exposition. 

President, Harlow N. Higinbotham; l-irst Vice-President, Eerdinand 
W. Peck; Second Vice-President, Robert A. Waller; Secretary, Howard O. 
Edmonds; Assistant Secretary, Samuel A. Crawford; Treasurer, Anthony 
F. Seeberger; Auditor, William K. Ackerman; Assistant Auditor, Charles 
V. Barrington. 

Law Department. — Attorney, W. K. Carlisle; Assistant Attorneys, 
George Packard, Chas. H. Baldwin; Attorney of Ways and Means Com- 
mittee, Joseph Cummins. 

Board of Directors. — Regular meeting on the second Friday of 
each month. William T. Baker, The Temple; C. K. G. Billings, 2 Madison 
street; Thomas B. Bryan, 55(3 Rand-McNally building; Edward B. Butler, 
Franklin and Congress streets; Isaac N. Camp, State and Jackson streets; 
William J. Chalmers, Fulton and Union streets; Robert C. Clowry, 150 
Washington street; Charles H. Chappell, Chicago & Alton R. R.; Maik 
L. Crawford, House of Correction; George R. Davis, Jackson Park; Arthur 
Dixon, 299 Fifth avenue; James W. Ellsworth, Phenix building; Lyman J. 
Gage, First National Bank; Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago; Charles 
Henrotin, 169 Dearborn street; H. N. Higinbotham, Jackson Park; Charles 
L. Hutchinson, Corn Exchange Bank; Elbridge G. Keith, Metropolitan 
National Bank; W^illiam D. Kerfoot, 85 Washington street; William P. 
Ketcham, Hoyne and Blue Island avenues; Milton W. Kirk, care James 
S. Kirk & Co.; V. F. Lawson, Daily News; Edward F. Lawrence, P irst 
National Bank; Thies J. Lefens, Room 1, 80 La Salle street; Andrew 
McNally, Rand-McNally building; Adolph Nathan, Franklni and Jackson 
streets; John J. P. Odell, Union National Bank; Ferdinand W. Peck, 110 
Auditorium building; E. M. Phelps, Phelps, Dodge & Palmer; Washing- 
ton Porte., Room 7, 108 Dearborn street; Alexander H. Revell, Wabash 
avenue and Adams street; Edward P. Ripley, 207 Rand-McNally building; 
A M. Rothschild, 203 Monroe street; George Schneider, 115 Dearborn 
street; Charles H. Schwab, Jackson Park; J. W. Scott, Chicago Herald; 
Henry B. Stone, 203 Washington street; Charles H. Wacker, 171 North 
Desplaines street; Edwin Walker, 616 Rookery building; Robert A.Wal- 
ler, 164 La Salle street; John C. Welling, 78 Michigan avenue; Frederick 
S. Winston, Monadnock building; G. H. Wheeler, 2020 State street; 
Charles T. Yerkes, 444 North Clark street; Otto Young, The Fair. 

Council of Administration. — Consisting of two .members of the 
World's Columbian Commission and two Directors of the World's Colum- 
bian Exposition: Harlow N. Higinbotham, Chairman (President World's 
Columbian Exposition); George V. Massey, National Commissioner from 
Delaware; Charles H. Schwab, Director World's Columbian Exposition; 
J. W. St. Clair, National Commissioner from West Virginia; A. W. Sawyer, 
Secretary. 

Director-General /nd Officers. — Director-General, George R. 
Davis. 

Chiefs of FtEPARTMENTS. — Agriculture, \^^ I. Buchanan; Horticult- 
ure, J. M. Samuels; Fish, Fisheries, Fish Products, etc., J. W. Collins; 
Mines, Mining and Metallurgy, Fred. J. V. Skiff; Machinery, L. \V. Robin- 
son; Transportation Exhibits (Railways, Vessels and \'chicles), WiUard A, 



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Smith; Manufactures, James llison; Electricity and Electrical Appliances, 
J. P. Barrett; Fine Arts, Halsey C. Ives; Liberal Arts, Selim H. Peabody; 
Ethnology, Fred. W. Putnam; Publicity and Promotion, Moses P. Handy; 
Foreign Affairs, Walker Fearn. 

Commissioner-at-Large. — Thomas B. Bryan, 

Military and Naval Attaches. — Wm. Bainbridge Hoff, Com- 
mander, U. S, N.; D. N. Bertolette, Surgeon, U. S. N.; Roger Welles, En- 
sign, U. S. N.; J. C. Irvine, Lieut., U. S. A. 

Principal Clerks, — Chief Clerk, Eben Brewer; Secretary, E. H. 
Taylor; Private Secretary, N. E. Dawson, 

Installation Officers, — Secretary of Installation, Joseph Hirst; 
Special Agent for Foreign Exhibits, Fred, Brackett. 

DEPARTMENTS. 

A.— Agriculture, Food and Food Products, Farming Machinery and 
App iances, W. I, Buchanan, Chief; A, B, Hurt, Secretary; L. M. Evans, 
Superintendent of Forestry; James Mortimer, Superintendent Kennel 
Division; A. M, Garland, Superintendent Sheep Division; J, B, Dinsmore, 
Superintendent Cattle Division. 

B. — Horticulture, Floriculture, etc., J. M. Samuels, Chief; J. P. Crane, 
Chief Clerk; John Thorpe, Superintendent of Floriculture; Ben C, Truman, 
Assistant Superintendent of Floriculture; Hugh M. Hughes, Superintend- 
ent of Grounds; Charles Wright, Superintendent of Pomology; H, M. La 
Rue, Superintendent of Viticulture. 

C. — Live Stock — Domestic and Wild Animals, W. I, Buchanan, Chief 
Department A, in charge, 

D. — Fish, Fisheries, Fish Products and Apparatus of Fishing, J. W. 
Collins, Chief; J, M, Whitelaw, Superintendent of Building; Dr. James A. 
Henshall, Assistant in charge of Angling Exhibit; E, C. Bryan, Secretary. 

E. — Mines, Mining and Metallurgy, Frederick J, V, Skiff, Chief; F. 
A. Trittle, Superintendent of Building; E, L, Burchard, Chief Clerk; D. C. 
Boyce, Expert, Coal and Iron; J. Stockley Carey, Chemist and Assayer; S. J. 
Macomber, Machinery Expert; W, A, Raborg, Mineralogist, 

F. — Machinery, L, W, Robinson, Chief; H, Fitz-John Porter, Engineer. 

G. — Transportation Exhibits (Railways, Vessels and Vehicles), Wil- 
lard A. Smith, Chief; Miss Bessie B. Boyer, Secretary; T, Hackworth 
Young, Superintendent Railway Division; A. A. Abbott, Superintendent 
Vehicle Dj vision; Lieut. A, C. Baker, U. S. N., Superintendent Marine 
Division, 

H. — Manufactures, James Allison, Chief; Frank R Williams, Assistant 
Chief; Clinton Collier, Superintendent Shoe and Leather Division. 

J. — Electricity and Electrical Appliances, Prof. John P, Barrett, Chief; 
Dr. J. Allan Hornsby, Assistant Chief; Willis Hawley, Assistant, 

K. — Fine Arts, Halsey C. Ives, Chief; C. M. Kurtz, Assistant to Chief; 
Miss Sara T. Hallowell, Assistant; George Corliss, Superintendent of 
Galleries. 

L. — Liberal Arts, Selim H, Peabody, Chief; C. P. Umstot, Chief Clerk; 
F. W. Brewer, Superintendent of Hygiene; Wm. O. Pratt, Superintendent 
of Education and Sanitation; N, vS. Rosenau, Superintendent of Charities 
and Corrections; Theodore Thomas, Musical Director; W, L. Tomlins, 
Choral Director; G. H, Wilson, Secretary, Music and Drama. 

M. — Ethnology, Prof. Frederick W, Putnam, Chief; Dr. Franz Boas, 
Assistant; Miss F, H. Meade, Secretary; Professor Joseph Jastrow, Super- 
intendent Section of Psychology; Professor H, G. Donaldson, Superintend- 
ent Section of Neurology; Mr. G. A. Dorsey, Superintendent Section of 



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Archaeology; Mr. Stewart Culin, Superintendent Section of Religions, 
Games and Folk-lore. 

N. — Forestry, W. I. Buchanan, Chief; L. M. Evans,' Superintendent. 

O. — Publicity and Promotion, Moses P. Handy, Chief; J. P. Holland, 
Superintendent Bureau of Information; Paul Hull, Superintendent Cata- 
logue Division; H. W. Cannon, Chief Clerk; Frank Rigler, Superintendent 
Mailing Division; Adelaide F. Willson, Private Secretary; Sam V. Steele, 
Official Reporter. Editorial Assistants, W. M.Knox, Nancy Huston Bank? ' 
Victor Sarner, C. S. Busbey, W. C. Gates, Business Manager Official Paper. 

P. — Foreign Affairs, Walker Fearn, Chief; Richard Lee Fearn, Secre- 
tary; S. Chapman Simms, Assistant Secretary; Lieut. Fletcher S. Bassett, 
U. S. N. (retired), Interpreter; C. R. Pickard, Chief Clerk. Latin-American 
Bureau, William E. Curtis, Roger Wells, Jr., Ensign, U. S. N., E. D. York. 

Director of Works and Officers. — (Service Building, near Sixty- 
second street entrance.) D. H. Burnham, Director of Works; E. R. Gra- 
ham, Assistant Director of Works; M. B. Pickett, Secretary of Works; F. 
L. Olmsted & Co., Landscape Architects; Charles B. Atwood, Designer-in- 
Chief ; F. D. Millet, Director of Decoration; C. Y. Turner, Assistant Director 
of Decoration; W. H. Holcomb, General Manager of Transportation; E. G. 
Nourse, Assistant General Manager cf Transportation; Col. Edmund Rice, 
U. S. A., Commandant Columbian Guard; E. C. Shankland, Chief Engineer; 
Charles F. Foster, Mechanical Engineer; William S. McHarg, Engineer of 
Water Supply and Sewerage; C. M. Wilkes, Assistant Engineer Water De- 
partment; John W.Alvord, Engineer of Gradesand Surveys; C.H. Binkley, 
Assistant Engineer, Grades and Surveys; F. O. Cloys, Chief Draftsman; 
John E. Owens, M. D., Medical Director; R. Ulrich, Superintendent of 
Landscape; E. D. Allen, Superintendent of Painting; R. H. Pierce, Elec- 
trical Engineer; C. D. Arnold, Chief Department of Photography; Edward 
W. Murphy, Fire Marshal, 14th Battalion Chicago Fire Department; F. 
J. Mulcahy, Purchasing Agent; W. D. Richardson, General Superintendent 
of Buildings; D. A. Collins, Superintendent of Interior Docking; E. R. 
Loring, Superintendent of Plumbing; A. A. Clark, Superintendent of 
Midway Plaisance; J. Worcester, Superintendent of Elevated Railway; W. 
E. Brown, B. B. Cheeseman, J. K. Freitag, H. S. Hibbard, C. A. Jordan, 
J. H. Murphy, A. C. Speed, F. W. Watts, M. Young, Building Superin- 
tendents. 

Transportation Department.— Offices, 3d floor north end of ter- 
minal railway station. W. H. Holcomb, General Manager; E. G. Nourse, 
Assistant General Manager; W. H. Christman, Chief Clerk; Capt. F. M. 
Symonds, Superintendent of Marine Division; P. Haley, Superintendent of 
Installation, Rooms 12 and 13; W. E. Green, Superintendent of Railway 
Terminal, Room 16; R. Bosserman, Superintendent of Warehouses, Room 
2; Thomas Collins, Joint Railway Agent, Room 16; J. D. Mason, Engineer, 
Room 1; H. L. Evans, Depot Master, first floor, northwest corner Terminal 
Station. 

Bureau of Admissions and Collections. — Consisting of the Pres- 
ident of the World's Colum.bian Exposition, the Chairmen of the Commit- 
tees of W^ays and Means and Finance, and the Treasurer and Auditor: Ed- 
ward B. Butler, Chairman; Harlow N. Higinbotham, Anthony F. Seeber- 
ger, Ferdinand W. Peck, William K. Ackerman; H. O. Edmonds, Secretary; 
Horace Tucker, Superintendent of Admissions; E. A. Felder, Assistant 
Superintendent; Paul Blackmar, Superintendent of Collections; William 
E. Cash, Assistant Superintendent of Collections. 

Bureau of Public Comfort. — Board of Control: H. F. Higinbotham, 
Chairman; E. B. Butler, R. A. Waller; W. Marsh Kasson, Chief of Bureau; 
Henry S. Tuthill, Superintendent of Hotel and Rooming Department. 



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Officers of the World's Columbian Commission.— President, 
Thomas W. Palmer, of Michigan; First Vice-President, Thomas M. Wal- 
ler, of Connecticut; Second Vice-President, M. H. de Young, of California; 
Third Vice-President, Davidson B. Penn, of Louisiana; Fourth Vice-Presi- 
dent, Gorton W. Allen, of New York; Fifth Vice-President, Alexander B. 
Andrews, of North Carolina; Secretary, John T. Dickinson, of Texas; Vice- 
Chairman Executive Committee, H. P. Piatt, of Ohio. 

Board of Reference and Control (World's Columbian Commis- 
sion). — Members: Thomas W. Palmer, of Michigan, President; H. P. Piatt, 
of Ohio, Vice-President; George V. Massey, of Delaware; R. L. Saunders, 
of Mississippi; Michael H. de Young, of California; Thomas M. Waller, of 
Connecticut; Elijah B. Martindale, of Indiana; J. W. St. Clair, of West Vir- 
ginia; John T. Dickinson, of Texas, Secretary. Alternates: M. H. Lane, of 
Michigan; V. D. Groner, of Virginia; P. H. Lannan, of Utah; Thomas 
Smith, of New Jersey; O. V. Tousley, of Minnesota; Euclid Martin, of 
Nebraska. World's Columbian Exposition: H. N. Higinbotham, President; 
R. A. Waller, Edwin Walker, E. P. Ripley, Ferdinand W. Peck, L. J, Gage, 
H. B. Stone, John J. P. Odeli; H. O. Edmonds, Secretary. 

Director-General, George R. Davis, of Illinois. 

Commissioners-at-Large. — Commissioners: Augustus G. Bullock, 
Worcester, Mass.; Gorton W. Allen, Auburn, N. Y.; Peter A. B. Widener, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; Thomas W. Palmer, Detroit, Mich.; R. W. Furnas, 
Brownville, Neb.; Patrick Walsh, Augusta, Ga.; Henry Exall, Dallas, 
Tex.; Mark L. McDonald, Santa Rosa, Cal. Alternates: Henry Ingalls, 
Wiscasset, Me.; Louis Fitzgerald, New York, N. Y.; John W. Chalfant, 
Pittsburg, Pa.; James Oliver, South Bend, Ind.; Hale G. Parker, St. Louis, 
Mo.; John B. Castleman, Louisville, Ky.; H. C. King, San Antonio, Tex.; 
Thomas Burke, Seattle, Wash. 

Commissioners of the District of Columbia. — Commissioners: 
Alexander T. Britton, Washington; Albert A. Wilson, Washington. Alter- 
nates: E. Kurtz Johnson, Washington; Dorsey Clagett, Washington. 

Board of Management and Control. The United States Gov- 
ernment Exhibit. — Mr. Edwin Willits, Chairman; W. E. Curtis, Depart- 
ment of State, to represent that department; Fred A. Stocks, to represent 
the Treasury Department; Major Clifton Comly, United States Army, to 
represent the War Department; Captain R. W. Meade, United States Navy, 
to represent the Navy Department; A. D. Hazen, Third Assistant Post- 
master-General, to represent the Postoffice Department; Horace A. Taylor, 
Commissioner of Railroads, to represent the Department of the Interior; 
Elijah C. Foster, General Agent of the Department of Justice, to represent 
that department; Edwin Willits, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, to rep- 
resent the Department of Agriculture; Professor G, Brown Goode, Assist- 
ant Secretary Smithsonian Institution, to represent that institution and the 
National Museum; Tarleton H. Bean, United States Fish Commission; F, 
T. Bickford, Secretary and Executive Officer, 

Officers of the Board of Lady Managers, — President, Mrs, 
Potter Palmer, of Chicago; First Vice-President, Mrs. Ralph Trautmann, 
of New York; Second Vice-President, Mrs. Edwin C. Burleigh, of Maine; 
Third Vice-President, Mrs. Charles Price, of North Carolina; Fourth Vice- 
President, Miss Katherine L. Minor, of Louisiana; Fifth Vice-President, 
Mrs. Beriah Wilkins, of the District of Columbia; Sixth Vice-President, 
Mrs. M. D. Thatcher, of Colorado; Seventh Vice-President, Mrs. Flora 
Beall Ginty, of Wisconsin; Eighth Vice-President, Mrs. Margaret Blaine 
Salisbury, of Utah; Vice-President-at-Large, Mrs. Russell B. Harrison, of 
Montana; Vice-Chairman Executive Committee, Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, 
of Indiana; Secretary, Mrs. Susan G. Cooke, of Tennessee; Mrs. Helen M. 



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Barker, of South Dakota, Superintendent Industrial Depnrtment; Mrs. 
Amey M. Starkweather, of Rhode Island, Superintendent of State Work; 
Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, of Indiana, Chairman Committee on Awards; 
Mrs. Candace Wheeler, of New York, Director of the Woman's Building. 

Nominated by Commtssioneks-at-Large.— Lady Managers: Mrs. D. 
F. Verdenal, New York; Mrs. Mary Cecil Cantrill, Georgetown, Ky.; Mrs. 
Mary S. Lock wood, 812 Twelfth St., Washington, D. C; Mrs. John }. 
Bagley, Detroit, Mich.; Miss Ellen A. Ford, 252 Broadway, New York; 
Mrs. Mary S. Harrison, Helena, Mont.; Mrs. Ida A» Elkins Tyler, Pullitt 
Building, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Rosine Ryan, Austin, Tex. Lady 
Alternates: Mrs. Ben C. Truman, Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. Nancy Huston 
Banks, Morganfield, Ky.; Mrs. James B. Stone, 137 Vernon St., Worcester, 
Mass.; Mrs. Schuyler Colfax, South Bend, Ind.; Mrs. Helen A. Peck, 3100 
Troost Ave., Kansas City, Mo.; Miss Caroline E. Dennis, Auburn, N. Y.; 
Mrs. Geo. R. Yarrow, 2213 Green St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Officers of United States Army. — On duty in connection with the 
World's Columbian Exposition. On duty with the government exhibits: 
Major Clifton Comly, Ordnance Department, Government Building; 
Major G. M. Randall, 4th Infantry, Government Buildmg; Capt. L. A. La 
Garde, Medical Department, Government Building. Capt. A. H. Russell, 
Ordnance Department, Government Building; Capt. R. E. Thompson, 
Signal Department, Government Building; Capt. J. G. Bourke, 3d Cavalry, 
Government Building; Capt. D. M. Appel, Medical Department, Attending 
Surgeon; Capt. C. H. Heyl, 23d Infantry, Government Building; Capt. F. A. 
Edwards, 1st Cavalry, Government Building: Capt. John Rodgers, Quar- 
termaster's Department; Capt. A. H. Harbach, 20th Infantry, Quartermas- 
ter's Department; Lieut. H. L. Harris, 1st Artillery, Quartermaster's De- 
partment; Lieut. C. B. Wheeler, Ordnance Department; Lieut. A. M. 
Palmer, 24th Infantry, Quartermaster's Department; Lieut. H. C. Benson, 
4th Cavalry, Quartermaster's Department; Lieut. C. W. Fenton, 7th Cavalry, 
Quartermaster's Department; Lieut. J. A. Dapray, 23d Infantry, Quarter- 
master's Department. On duty in connection with the World's Columbian 
Exposition, by virtue of the Act of Congress, August, 1892: Bvt. Lieut. Col. 
Edmund Rice, 5th Infantry, Service Building; Capt. W. S. Schuyler, 5th Cav- 
alry, Service Building; Capt. E. J. McClernand, 2d Cavalry, Service Build- 
ing; Capt. F. A. Smith, 12th Infantry, Service Building; Capt. Wm. Baird^Gth 
Cavalry, Service Building; Capt. John Pitcher, 1st Cavalry, Administration 
Building; Lieut. M. F. Jamar, 13th Infantry, Service Building; Lieut. C. B. 
Hoppin, 2d Cavalry, Service Building; Lieut. J. L. Wilson, 4th Artillery, 
Service Building; Lieut. R. J. C. Irvine, 11th Infantry, Administration 
Building; Lieut. S. M. Foote, 4th Artillery, Service Building: Lieut. R. F. 
Ames, 8th Infantry, Service Building; Lieut. G. H. Preston, 9th Cavalry, 
Administration Building; Lieut. C. L. H. Ruggles, 8d Artillery, Service 
Building. 

Naval Officers on Duty at Chicago. — Commodore R. W. Meade, 
Commanding Battleship Illinois, World's Fair; Commander William 
Bainbridge Hoff, Director-General's Office, Pavilion B, Administration 
Building; Commander J. J. Brice, Lighthouse Inspector, Chamber of Com- 
merce Building; Lieut. -Commander F. M. Symonds, Terminal Sta- 
tion, Jackson Park; Lieut.-Commander E. D. Taussig, Battleship Illinois; 
Lieut. Fletcher S. Bassett (retired). Department of Foreign Affairs, Pavil- 
ion C, Administration Building; Lieut. Asher C. Baker, Chief of Marine 
Division, Transportation Exhibits Department; Lieut. H. C. Poundstone 
Battleship Illinois; Lieut. G. F. Emmons, United States Goverhmen, 
Building; Lieut, A. G. Winterhalter, United States Government Buildingt 
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W. P. Safford, United States Government Building; Ensign PvOger Welles, 
Jr., Department of Foreign Affairs; Pay Director F. C. Cosby, Battleship 
Illinois; Chief Engineer L. W. Robinson, Machinery Hall; Surgeon D. N. 
Bertolette, Director-General's Office; Past Assistant Surgeon A. H. C. Rus- 
sell, Battleship Illinois; Past Assistant Engineer E. M. Bennett, Battleship 
Illinois; Past Assistant Engineer I. S. K. Reeves, United States Fish Com- 
mission, Government Building; Prof. O. G. Dodge, Electricity Division, 
Machinery Hall. 

Officers Columbian Guard. — Colonel Edmund Rice, Commandant; 
Capt. Fred A. Smith, 12th Infantry, Adjutant; Capt. C. B. Hoppin, 2d Cav- 
alry, Quartermaster; Capt. G. M. Farnham, Recruiting Officer; Capt. W. S. 
Schuyler, 5th Cavalry, Commanding Company No. 10; Capt. E. J. McCler- 
nand, 2d Cavalry, Commanding Company No. 2; Capt. William Baird, 6th 
Cavalry, Commanding Companies Nos. 3, 16, 24, 28; Capt. John Pitcher, 1st 
Cavalry, Commanding Companies Nos. 5, 19, 22; 1st Lieut. M. F. Jamar, 
15th Infantry, Commanding Companies Nos. 9, 23; 1st Lieut. R. F. Ames, 
8th Infantry, Commanding Company No. 13; 1st Lieut. J. L. Wilson, 4th 
Artillery, Commanding Companies Nos. 11, 26; 1st Lieut. S. M. Foote, 4th 
Artillery, Commanding Companies Nos. 21, 25; 2d Lieut. Guy H. Preston, 
9th Cavalry, Commanding Companies Nos. 8, 15, 17, 27; 2d Lieut. C. L. H. 
Ruggles, 3d Artillery, Commanding Company No. 18; Capt. John Bonfield, 
Chief Secret Service Bureau; Capt. H. M. Elliott, Commanding Companies 
Nos. 4, 20; Capt. W. J. Sanderson, Commanding Companies Nos. 6, 14, 30; 
Capt. J. J. Siddall, Commanding Companies Nos. 1, 12, 29. 

The World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian 
Exposition: Charles C. Bonney, President; Thomas B. Bryan, Vice-Presi- 
dent; Lyman J. Gage, Treasurer; Benjamin Butterworth, C. E. Young 
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NATIONAL AND STATE COMMISSIONERS AND BOARD OF 

LADY MANAGERS. 

ALABAMA. 

National Commissioners: Frederick G. Bromberg, Mobile; Oscar R. 
Hundley, Huntsville. Alternates: Gotthold L. Werth, Montgomery; Wil- 
liam S. Hull, Sheffield. 

National Board Lady Managers: Miss Hattie T. Hundley, Moores- 
ville; Mrs. Anna M. Fosdick, Mobile. Alternates: Mrs. S. H. Bush, Bir- 
mingham; Miss Irene W. Semple, Montgomery. 

ARKANSAS. 

State Board of Commissioners: James Mitchell, President, Little 
Rock; Hal L. Norwood, Secretary, Locksburg; R, H. Adair, Manager, Fort 
Smith; Miss Fannie Scott, Lady Assistant Manager, Van Buren; W. S. 
Thomas, Little Rock; R. B. Weaver, Rally Hill; Edward W. Pascoe, Cush- 
man. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. James P. Eagle, Little Rock; 
Mrs. Rollin A. Edgerton, Little Rock. Alternates: Mrs. Margaret M. 
Radcliff, Little Rock; Mrs. William B. Empie, Newport. 

National Commission: J. T. W. Tiller, Little Rock; J. H. Clendening, 
Fort Smith. Alternates: James T. Mitchell, Little Rock; Thomas H. 
Leslie, Stuttgart. 

CALIFORNIA. 

State Board of Commissioners: Irving M. Scott, President, San Fran- 
cisco; Jas. D. Phelan, Vice-President, San Francisco; N. J. Bird, General 
Manager; C. M. Wells, Secretary, San Francisco; John Daggett, Black 
Bear; R. McMurray, San Francisco; A. T. Hatch, San Francisco; L. J. 
Rose, Los Angeles; S. W. Ferguson, Bakersfield. 

State Board of Lady Managers: Mrs. E. O. Smith, President; Mrs. 
Flora M. Kimball, Vice-President; Mrs. A. Marcellus, 2d Vice-President; 
Mrs. Ella Sterling Cummins, Mrs. Anna M. Reed, Mrs. Olive C. Cole, Mrs. 
Virginia Bradley; Mrs. Hester A. Harland, Secretary. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Parthenia P. Rue, Santa Rosa; 
Mrs. James R. Deane, San Francisco. Alternates: Mrs. Isaac L. Requa, 
Piedmont; Mrs. Frona E. Waite, San Francisco. 

National Commission: Michel H. de Young, San Francisco; William 
Forsyth, Fresno. Alternates: George Hazleton, San Francisco; Russ D. 
Stephens, Sacramento. 

COLORADO. 

State Board of Commissioners: Governor Davis H. Waite, President, 
Aspen; A. B. McKinley, Vice-President, Denver; O. C. French, Secretary, 
Denver; Joseph A. Thatcher, Treasurer, Pueblo; B, S. LaGrange, Greeley; 
Frederick Steinhauer, Denver; Nathan B. Coy, Denver; R. E. Goodell, 
Leadville; Joseph H. Smith, Denver; H. B. Gillespie, Aspen; W. S. Coburn, 
Paoma. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. L. P. Coleman, Buena Vista; 
Mrs. M. D. Thatcher, Pueblo. Alternates: Mrs. William Patrick, Lead- 
ville; Mrs. Susan R. Ashley, Denver. 

National Commission: Toswell E. Goodell, Leadville; J. H. Smith, 
Denver. Alternates: Henry B. Gillespie, Aspen; O. C. French, New 
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CONNECTICUT. 

State Board of Commissioners: Gov. L. B. Morris, President, New 
Haven; David M. Read, Vice-President, Bridgeport; Eugene S. Boss, Vice- 
President, Willimantic; J. H. Vaille, Executive Manager, Winsted; Wilbur 
B. Foster, Secretary, Rockville; George H. Day, Treasurer, New Haven: 
Edward T. Brown, New London; Clinton B. Davis, Higganum; Rufus E. 
Holmes, West Winsted; Charles M. Jarvis, East Berlin; Oscar I. Jones, 
Westport; S. W. Kellogg, Waterbury; Charles S. L. Marlor, Brooklyn; 
Frank A. Mitchell, Norwich; Thomas R. Pickering, Portland; Milo B. 
Richardson, Lime Rock; George Sykes, Rockville; George F. Holcombe, 
New Haven. 

State Board of Lady Managers: Mrs. George H. Knight, President; 
Lakeville; Mrs. Jabez H. Alvord, Winsted; Mrs. P. T. Barnum, Bridgeport, 
Miss Hattie E. Brainard, Willimantic; Miss Anna H. Chappell, New Lon- 
don; Miss Clementine D. Clark, Higganum; Mrs. Franklin Farrell, An- 
sonia; Mrs. A. R. Goodrich, Vernon; Mrs. Wealthea A. Hammond, Port- 
land; Mrs. P. H. Ingalls, Hartford; Mrs. Cyril Johnson, Stafford; Miss 
Edith Jones, Westport; Miss Elizabeth T. Ripley, Norwich; Miss Lucy P. 
Trowbridge, New Haven; Mrs. E. T. Whitmore, Putnam; Mrs. Morgan G. 
Bulkeley, Hartford. 

National Board Lady Managers. Mrs. Frances S. Ives, New Haven; 
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, Hartford. Alternates: Mrs. Amelia B. 
Hinman, Stevenson; Mrs. Virginia T. Smith, Hartford. 

National Commission: Leverett Brainard, Hartford; Thomas M. Wal- 
ler, New London. Alternates: Charles F. Brooker, Torrington; Charles R. 
Baldwin, Waterbury. 

DELAWARE. 

State Board of Commissioners: Thomas B. Smith, President, Wilming- 
ton; George W. Emery, Vice-President, Seaford; William R. Allaband, 
Secretary, Dover; R. W. Reynolds, Treasurer, Frederica; Henry C. Con- 
rad. Wilmington; Matthias T. Moore, Laurel; Mrs. Caleb Churchman, 
Wilmington; Miss Ida Bacon, Laurel; Mrs. Anna E. Hall, Dover; Gov. 
Robert J. Reynolds. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. J. Frank Ball, Wilmington; 
Mrs. Mary Kidder, Milford. Alternates: Mrs. Thomas F. Armstrong, New- 
ark; Mrs. May Torbert, Milford. 

National Commission: George V. Massey, Dover; Willard Hall Por- 
ter, Wilmington. Alternates, Charles F. Richards, Georgetown; William 
Saulsbury, Dover. 

FLORIDA. 

State Board of Commissioners: President and Executive Commis- 
sioner, Arthur C. Jackson, Jacksonville; Vice-Presidents, Gov. H. L. Mitch- 
ell, Ex-Gov. F. P. Fleming, Ex-Gov. W. D. Bloxham, Hon. Joseph Hirst, 
Hon. Jeff Browne, Hon. J. L. Gaskins; Secretary, Guy I. Metcalf, Dade 
County; Treasurer, J. T. Talbot, Duval County. Commissioners: E. P. 
Branch, Brevard County; J. F. Greer, Clay County; J. E. Grady, Franklin 
County; S. A. Jones, Hillsborough County; C. J. Huelsenkamp, Monroe 
County; Fred W. Hoyt, Nassau County; M. R. Marks, Orange County; R. 
E. Rose, Osceola County; J. A. Enslow, Jr., St. John's County; Solon B. 
Turman, Superintendent Alinerals; W. E. Knibloe, Superintendent Educa- 
tion. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Mary C. Bell, Gainesville; Miss 
E. Nellie Beck, Tampa. Alternates: Mrs. Chloe M. Reed, Jacksonville; 
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National Commission: C. F. A. Bielby, De Land; Richard Turnbull, 
Monticello. Alternates: Dudley W. Adams, Tangerine; Jesse T. Bernard, 
Tallahassee. 

GEORGIA. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. William H. Felton, Cartersville; 
Mrs. Charles H. Olmstead, Savannah. Alternates: Miss Metta T. McLaws, 
Augusta; Mrs. George W. Lamar, Savannah. 

National Commission: Lafayette McLaws, Savannah; Charlton H. 
Way, Savannah. Alternates: C. C. Sanders, Savannah; John W. Clark, 
Augusta. 

IDAHO. *^ 

State Board of Commissioners: James M. Wells, Executive Commis- 
sioner, Boise City; AUiene Case, Assistant Commissioner; C. M. Sain, Sec- 
retary, Boise City. Commissioners by counties; Ada County: Mrs. T. E. 
Logan, Boise City; A. T. Thomas, Boise City. Alturas County: John Wors- 
wick. Smoky; Arthur Smith, Hailey; Mrs. E. B. True, Hailey; L L Lewis, 
Ketchum. Bannock County: Mrs. J. M. Bennett. Dear Lake County: 
Hon. J. L. Underwood, Montpelier; Mrs. M. J. Whitman, Montpelier; Wal- 
ter Hoge, Paris. Bingham County: E. P. Henry, Idaho Falls; F. M. Mor- 
rill, Soda Springs; Mrs. Carrie Eastman, Soda Springs; Mrs. E. E. Calvin, 
Pocatello; Mrs. E. E. Givens, Blackfoot. Boise County: G. Watts, Idaho 
City; Mrs. D. E. Coughanour, Quartzburg. Canon County: A. E. Gipson. 
Cassia County: A. B. Roberts, Albion; Mrs. E. J. Stokes, Albion. Custer 
County: C.C. Clawson, Bonanza; Mrs. C. C. Clawson, Bonanza. Elmore 
County: Mrs. M. J. Bearby, Mountain Home; C. C. Glenn, Glenn's Ferry. 
Idaho County: Dr. S. E. Biby, Grangeville; Miss Maggie Robinson, Grange- 
ville. Kootenai County: Jay Rand Sanburn, Coeur d'Alene City; Monroe 
Daggett, St. Maries; S. B. Wright, Bonners' Ferry; Mrs. G. A. Manning, 
Post Falls; Miss Jessie M. Kanoups, Rathdrum; H. M. Jorgens, Hope; 
Mrs. Emma J. Clarke. Latah County: Mrs. J. H. t orney, Moscow; Thos. 
Kirby, Kendrick. Lemhi County: Mrs. Ada Morritt, Salmon City. Logan 
County: Captain J. A. Lusk, Bellevue; Captain A. S. Senter, Shoshore; Mrs. 
W. H. Broadhead. Nez Perce County: M. J. Wessels Lewiston; Miss Sa- 
die E. Poe, Lewiston. Oneida County: Wm. B. Thews, Malad City. Owy- 
hee County: E. H. Dewey, Silver City. Shoshone County: Robert Neill, 
Wallace; Dr. A. O. Ingalls, Murray; Miss Nellie Smith, Kingston; W. F. 
Mann, Wallace. Washington County: V. D. Hannah, Weiser; Levi Allen, 
Salubria; Mrs. Olivia Allen, Salubria. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Anna E. M. Farnum, Hauser 
Junction; Mrs. J. C. Straughan, Boise City. Alternates: Mrs. Louise L. 
Barton, Moscow; Mrs. Ella R. Miller, Blackfoot. 

National Commission: George A. Manning, Post Falls; John E.. 
Stearns, Nampa. Alternates: A.J. Crook, Hailey; John M. Burke, Wardner. 

LLINOIS. 

State Board of Commissioners: La Fayette Funk, President, Shirley; 
David Gore, Vice-President, Carlinville; Wilson C. Garrard, Secretary, 
Chicago; John W. Bunn, Treasurer, Springfield; John P. Reynolds, Director- 
in-Chief, Chicago; Daniel H. Paddock, Attorney, Kankakee; J. Irving 
Pearce, Chicago; J. Harley Bradley, Chicago; Wm. Stewart, Chicago; 
Byron F. Wyman, Sycamore; A. B. Hostetter, Mt. Carroll; Samuel Dysart, 
Franklin Grove; W. D. Stryker, Plainfield; John Virgin, Fairbury; D. W. 
Vittum, Canton; E. B. David, Aledo; W. H. Fulkerson, Jerseyville; J. W. 
Judy, Tallula; S. W. Johns, Decatur; E. E. Chester, Champaign; James K. 
Dickirson, Lawrenceville; Edward C. Pace, Ashley; B. PuUen, Centralia; 
J. M. Washburn, Marion. 



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Illinois Woman's Exposition Board: Mrs. Marcia Louise Gould, Presi- 
dent, Moline; Mrs. Robert H. Wiles, Vice-President, Freeport; Miss Mary 
Callahan, Secretary, Robinson; Mrs. Richard J. Oglesby, Elkhart; Mrs. 
Francis L. Gilbert, Chicago; Mrs. Francine E. Patton, Springfield; Mrs. 
Isabella Laning ("andee, Cairo; Mrs. Frances Welles Shepard, Chicago. 

Residents of the city of Chicago appointed by President of the World's 
Columbian Commission: Mrs. Bertha M. Honore Palmer, Lake Shore 
Drive; Mrs. Solomon Thatcher, Jr., River Forest; Mrs. James A. Mulligan, 
190 Pine street; Frances Dickinson, M.L^., 70 State street; Miss Sarah T, 
Hallowell, Palmer House; Mrs George L. Dunlap, 328 Dearborn avenue; 
Mrs. L. Brace Shattuck, 5^00 Woodlawn avenue; Mrs. Annie C. Myers, 
Great Northern Hotel; ^Irs. M. R. M. Wallace, 3817 Michigan avenue; 
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, 1428 Michigan avenue; Mrs. James R. Doolittle, Jr., 
24 Groveland Park; Mrs. Matilda B. Carse, 145 Ashland boulevard; Martha 
H. Ten Eyck, 5704 Madison avenue: Mrs. Margaret Isabelle Sandes, 
Ravenswood, 111.; Mrs Leander Stone, 3352 Indiana avenue; Mrs. Gen. A. L. 
Chetlain, 543 X. State street; Frances E. Willard, Eva^nston, 111. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs, Richard J. Oglesby, Elkhart; 
Mrs. Frances W. Shepard, Chicago. Alternates: Mrs. Marcia Louise 
Gould, Moline; Mrs. I. L. Candee, Cairo. 

National Commission; Charles H. Deere, Moline; Adlai T. Ewing- 
Chicago. Alternates: La Fayette Funk, Shirley; De Witt Smith, Spring, 
field. 

INDIANA. 

State Board of Commissioners: Gov. Claude Mathews, Indianapolis; 
Clem. Studebaker, President, South Bend; Charles B. Stuart, \'ice-President, 
La Fayette; William B. Roberts, Secretary, Indianapolis; Fred J. Hayden, 
Treasurer, Fort Wayne; B. F. Havens, Executive Commissioner, Terre 
Haute; Robert Mitchell, Princeton; Philip W. Frey, Evansville; Joseph 
Wilson, Washington; Royal E. Purcell, Vincennes; Jaspar Packard, New 
Albany; Sidney Conger, Flat Rock; Cortez Ewing, Greensburg; Edward 
Hawkins, Indianapolis; Daniel H. Davis, Knightsville; John G. Dunbar, 
Greencastle; D. J. Mendenhall, W^estfield; J. V. Sweetser, Marion; J. M. 
Westcott, Richmond; Thomas Hart, Muncie; W. N. Hailman, La Porte; B. 

F. Louthain, Logansport; J. B. White, Fort Wayne; John L. Campbell, 
Crawfordsville; John B. Conner, Indianapolis; V. K. Officer, Volga; S. S. 
Gorby, Indianapolis; W. A. Peele, Jr., Indianapolis; Mrs, May Wright 
Sewell, Indianapolis; Mrs, S. S. Harrell, Brookville; Mrs. Laura D. Worley, 
Elletsville; Mrs. E. P. Hammond, Rensselaer. 

Natiopal Board Lady Managers: Miss Wilhelmine Reitz, Evansville; 
Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, Cambridge City. Alternates: Miss Susan W. 
Ball, Terre Haute; Miss ^Iary H. Krout, Crawfordsville. 

National Commission: Thomas E.Garvin, Evansville; Elijah B. Mar- 
tindale, Indianapolis. Alternates: William E. McLean, Terra Haute; 
Charles M. Travis, Crawfordsville. 

IOWA. 

State Board of Commissioners: President, James O. Crosby, Garna- 
villo; Vice-President, John F. Duncombe, Fort Dodge; Treasurer, Wm. 
Hamilton Dent, Le Mars; Secretary, F. N. Chase, Cedar Falls; Executive 
Committee; S. H. Mallory, Chariton; S. B. Packard, Marshalltown; H. W. 
Seaman, Clinton; Henry Stivers, Des Moines; Charles Ashton, Guthrie 
Center; J. W. Jarnagin, Montezuma; A. C. Roberts, Fort Madison. 

State Board of Lady Managers: President, Miss Ora E. Miller, Cedar 
Rapids; Vice-President, Mrs. N. C. Deering, Osage; Secretary, Mrs. Eliza 

G. Rhodes, Mount Pleasant; Treasurer, Miss Mary B. Hancock, Dubuque; 



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Mrs. Flora J. McAchran, Bloomfield: Mrs. Whiting S. Clark, Des Moines; 
Mrs. Orry H. Salts, Corning; Mrs. L. O. Ferson, Council Bluffs; Mrs. John 
F. Duncombe, Fort Dodge; Mrs. A. M. Ainsworth, Onawa; Mrs. Ellen K. 
Cook, Davenport. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Whiting S. Clark, Des Moines; 
Miss Ora E. Miller, Cedar Rapids. Alternates: Mrs. Ira F. Hendricks, 
Council Bluffs; Miss Mary B. Hancock, Dubuque. 

National Commission: W. F. King, Mt. Vernon; Joseph Eiboeck, Des 
Moines. Alternates: John Hayes, Red Oak; Charles E. Whiting, Whiting. 

KANSAS. 

State Board of Commissioners: M. W. Cobun, President, Great Bend; 
L. P. King, Vice-President, Tannehill; Mrs. A. M. Clark, Secretary, Man- 
kato; T. J. Anderson, Treasurer, Topeka; Geo. W. Glick, Atchison; A. P. 
Collins, Salina; H. H. Kern, Bonner Springs. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Jennie S. Mitchell, Topeka; 
Mrs. Hester A. Hanback, Topeka. Alternates: Mrs. Sara Blair Lynch, 
Leavenworth; Mrs. Jane H. Haynes, Fort Scott. 

National Commission: Charles K. Holiday, Jr., Topeka; J. R. Burton, 
Abilene. Alternates: M. D. Henry, Independence; S. H. Lanyon, Pitts- 
burg. 

KENTUCKY. 

State Board of Commissioners: W. H. Dulaney, President, Louisville; 
John W. Yerkes, Secretary, Danville; John D. Clardy, Newstead; James D. 
Black, Barboursville; A. D. James, Penrod; William R. Smith, Lexington; 
Zephania Meek, Catlettsburg; Mrs. Sue P. Brown, Owensboro; Miss Ida E. 
Symmes, Louisville; Miss Lucy Lee Hill, Lexington. 

National Board Lady Managers: Miss Jean W. Faulkner, Lancaster; 
Mrs. A. C. Jackson, Covington. Alternates: Mrs. Sarah F. Holt, Frankfort; 
Mrs. Alice B. Castleman, Louisville. 

National Commizsion: John Bennett, Richmond; Harvey Myers, Cov- 
ington. Alternates: David N. Comingore, Covington; John S. Morris, 
Louisville. 

LOUISIANA. 

State Board of Commissioners: A. A. Woods, President, New Orleans; 
Jos. A. Shakespeare, Vice-President, New Orleans; Robert Bleakley Sec- 
retary, Chamber of Commerce Building, New Orleans; James M. Pagaud, 
Jr., Treasurer, New Orleans; John C. Wickliffe, State Commissioner; Thomas 
J. Woodward, New Orleans; A. Brittin, New Orleans; John Dymond, New 
Orleans; L. M. Finley, New Orleans; Lewis Johnson, New Orleans. 

Ladies' Auxiliary Board: Mrs. Belle H. Perkins; Mrs. Scott McGehee, 
Vice-Chairman; Mrs. Jos. Oglesby, Secretary; Mrs. W. W. Carre, Treasurer. 

National Board Lady Managers: Miss K. L. Minor, Houma; Mrs. 
Belle A. Perkins, New Orleans. Alternates: Mrs. B. S. Leathers, New 
Orleans; Mrs. W. W. Carre, New Orleans. 

National Commission: Davidson B. Penn, New Orleans; Thomas J. 
Woodward New Orleans. Alternates: Alphonse Le Due, New Orleans; 
P. J. McMahon, Tangipahoa. 

MAINE. 

State Board of Commissioners: Hall C. Burleigh, President, Vassal- 
boro; Henry Ingalls, Vice-President, Wiscasset; Eva A. Parcher, Secretary, 
Saco; Jas. A. Boardman, Treasurer, Bangor; Chas. P. Mattocks, Executive 
Commissioner, Portland; Clark S. Edwards, Bethel; Augustus R. Bixby, 
Skowhegan; Wm. G. Davis, Portland; D. J. Callahan, Lewiston; Jos. P. 
bass, Bangor; Mrs. Kate May Andrews, Lewiston; Mrs. Lucinda M. Bel- 
lows, Freedom; Mrs. Agnes C. Paul, Fort Fairfield. 



WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 205 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. E. C. Burleigh, Augusta; Mrs. 
L. M. N. Stevens, Portland. Alternates: Mrs. Sarah H. Bixby, Skowhegan; 
Mrs. Helen M. Staples, Hanover. 

National Commission: Augustus R. Bixby, Skowhegan; William G. 
Davis, Portland. Alternates: James A. Boardman, Bangor; Clark S. 
Edwards, Bethel. 

MARYLAND. 

State Board of Commissioners: Gov. Frank Brown, President, Balti- 
more; Hon. F. C. Latrobe, Vice-President, Baltimore; J. Olney Norris, 
Secretary, Baltimore; Otis C. Brownley, Assistant Secretary, Havre de 
Grace; Frank S. Hambleton, Treasurer, Baltimore; Wm. H. Love, 
Recording and Financial Secretary, Baltimore; George L. MaCahan, 
Executive Commissioner, Baltimore; Chas. T. Davis, Assistant Executive 
Commissioner, Baltimore; Hon. Murray Vandiver, Havre de Grace, 
Harford county; David Hutzler, Baltimore; Frank N. Hoen, Baltimore; 
John R. Bland, Baltimore; H. H. Dashell, Princess Anne; Frank R. Scott, 
Elkton; James T. Perkins, Springfield, Prince George's county. 

Committee on Woman's Work : Mrs. Wm. Reed, Baltimore, Chairman ; 
Mrs. Elihu E. Jackson, Salisbury; Mrs. Chas. M.Ellis, Elkton; Mrs. John 
Ritchie, Frederick; Mrs. Alexander Neil, Hagerstown; Miss Isabel Hamp- 
ton, Baltimore; Miss Henrietta Szold, Baltimore; Miss M. E. Richmond, 
Baltimore; Miss Elizabeth King, Baltimore; Mrs. Henry Stockbridge, 
Baltimore. 

National Board of Lady Managers: Mrs. William Reed, Baltimore; 
Mrs. Alexander Thompson, Mt. Savage. Alternates: Mrs. J. W. Patterson, 
Baltimore; Miss Eloise Rorman, Cumberland. 

National Commission: James Hodges, Baltimore; Lloyd Lowndes, 
Cumberland. Alternates: George M. Upshur, Snow Hill; Daniel E. 
Conkling, Baltimore. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

State Board of World's Fair Managers: Gen. Francis A. Walker, 
Chairman, Boston; Mrs. Alice Freeman, Palmer, Cambridger; Miss Anna 
L. Dawes, Pittsfield; Hon. Edward Burnett, Southboro; E. C. Hovey, Sec- 
retary and Executive Commissioner, Brookline. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Jonas H. French, Boston; Mrs. 
Rufus S. Frost, Chelsea. Alternates: Miss Mary Crease Sears, Boston; 
Mrs. A. F. Palmer, Cambridge. 

National Commission: Francis W. Breed, Lynn; Thos. E. Proctor, 
Boston. Alternates; George P. Ladd, Spencer; Charles E. Adams, Lowell. 

MICHIGAN. 

State Board of Commissioners: Isaac M. Weston, President, Grand 
Rapids; Eugene H. Belden, Vice-President, Horton; Mark W. Stevens, 
Secretary, Flint; James W. Flynn, Treasurer, Detroit; Gov. John T. Rich, 
Lansing; Mrs. Julia A. Pond, Hillsdale; Mrs. J. S. Valentine, Lansing; 
Peter White, Marquette. 

National Board of Lady Managers: Mrs. Eliza J. P. Howes, Battle 
Creek; Mrs. Sarah S. C. Angell, Ann Arbor. Alternates: Mrs. Frances P. 
Burrows, Kalamazoo; Miss Annie M. Cutcheon, Detroit. 

National Commission: M. Henry Lane, Kalamazoo; George H. Bar- 
bour, Detroit. Alternates: Ernest B. Fisher, Grand Rapids; Lyman D. 
Norris, Grand Rapids. 

MINNESOTA. 

State Board of Commissioners: D.A. Montfort, President, St. Paul; J. 
La Due, Vice-President, Luverne; C. McC. Reeve, Secretary, Minneapolis; 



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J. J. Furlong, Treasurer, Austin; A.L.Ward, Fairmont; George N, Lam- 
phere, Moorhead; Gov. Knute Nelson, ex-officio, St. Paul; O. V. Tousley, 
ex-officio, Minneapolis; H. B. Moore, ex-officio, Duluth; L. P.Hunt, Super- 
intendent State Exhibit, Mankato. 

Women's Auxiliary Board: Mrs. F. B, Clarke, President; St. Paul. Mrs, 
F. M. Greenleaf, Vice-President, Minneapolis; Mrs. A. A. White, Treasurer, 
Moorhead; Miss Mamie Dasse, Secretary, St. Paul: Mrs. Henry F. Brown, 
Minneapolis; Mrs. A. T. Stebbins, Rochester; Mrs. L. P. Hunt, Mankato; 
Mrs. Francis M. Crosby, Hastings; Mrs. Henry Hasenwinkle, St. Paul; 
Mrs. George Forsyth, Brainerd. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. F. B. Clarke, St. Paul; Mrs. H. 
F. Brown, Minneapolis. Alternates: Mrs. B. B. Winston, Minneapolis; 
Mrs. M. M. Williams, Little Falls. 

National Commission: H. B. Moore, Duluth; Orson V. Tousley, Min- 
neapolis. Alternates: Thomas C. Kurtz, Moorhead; Muret N. Leland, 
Wells. 

MISSISSIPPI. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. James W. Lee, Aberdeen, 
Mrs. John M. Stone, Jackson. Alternates: Mrs . George M. Buchanan, 
Holly Springs; Miss Varina Davis, Beauvoir. 

National Commission: Joseph M. Bynum, Rienzi; Robert L. Saunders, 
Jackson. Alternates: Fred W. Collins, Summit; Joseph H. Brinker, West 
Point. 

The Mississippi Legislature refused to pass an appropriation bill, 
hence that State has no building nor State Board of Commissioners. 

MISSOURI. 

Board of Commissioners: N. H. Gentry, President, Sedalia; Nathan 
Frank, Vice-President, St. Louis; Wm. Dawson, Secretary, New Madrid; 
Dr. E. McD. Coffey, Treasurer, Platte City; Charles W. Green, Brookfield; 
H. H. Gregg, Joplin; Hugh J. McGowan, Kansas City; J. K. Gwynn, Ex- 
ecutive Commissioner, St. Louis. 

Ladies' Auxiliary Board: Mrs. Patti Moo;-e, Kansas City; Mrs. J. N. 
Edwards, St. Joseph; Mrs. Teresa B. Adams, St. Louis; Mrs. S 'P. Sparks, 
Warrensburg; Mrs. M. J. Phelps, Springfield; Mrs. J. J. Russell, Charles- 
ton. 

National Board Lady Managers: Miss Phoebe Couzins, St. Louis; Miss 
Lillian M.Brown, Kirkwood. Alternates: Mrs. Patti Moore, Kansas City; 
Mrs. A. L. Y. Orff, St. Louis. 

National Commission: Thomas B. Bullene, Kansas City; Charles H. 
Jones, St. Louis. Alternates: O. H. Picher, Joplin; R. L. McDonald, St. 
Joseph. 

MONTANA. 

State Board of Commissioners: Stephen De Wolfe, President, Butte; 
Allen R. Joy, Vice-President, Livingston; James G. Ramsay, Secretary, 
Helena; David G. Browne, Treasurer, Fort Benton; W. M. Bickford, 
Executive Commissioner, Missoula; Phil Lovell, Dillon; Herbert O. 
Chovven, Great P^alls; C. R. Middleton, Miles City; Alf. J. Stephens, Lewis- 
town; Wm. M. Nevitt, Bozeman; Thomas Joyes, Boulder; A. J. Davidson, 
Helena; D. A. Pease, Twin Bridges; Wm. H. Sutherlin, White Sulphur 
Springs; George M. Hays, Billings; George W. Morse, New Chicago. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Clara L. McAdow, Spotted 
Horse; Mrs. J. E. Rickards, Butte. Alternates: Mrs. M. D. Cooper, 
Bozeman; Mrs. L. E. Howey, Helena. 

National Commission: L. H. Hershfield, Helena; Dr. A. H. Mitchell, 
Deer Lodge. Alternates: B. F. White, Dillon; T. E. Collins, Great Falls. 



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NEBRASKA. 

State Board of Commissioners: Charles A. Coe, President, Omaha; 
A. H. Gale, Secretary, Bassett; Joseph Garnea, Commissioner-General, 
Omaha; M. H. Weiss, Hebron; A. J. Sawyer, Lincoln; Seth P. Mobley, 
Grand Island; J. B. Steward, Benedict. 

Woman's Auxiliary Board: Mrs. M. Allen Bock, President, Omaha; 
Miss Elizabeth W. Irwin, Secretary, Lincoln; Mrs, E. C. Langworthy, 
Chairman Executive Committee, Seward; Mrs. Edward Steward, Blair; 
Mrs. W. H. McDonald, North Platte; Mrs. Alice D. Hume, Harvard; 
Mrs. J. H. Smith, Lincoln; Mrs. E. L. Eaton, Omaha; Mrs. J. H. Lynch, 
Hebron; Miss Antoinette W^ortham, Pawnee City; Mrs. C. B. Wells, Mat- 
son; Mrs. A. Patterson, Omaha. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. John S. Briggs, Omaha; Mrs. 
E. C. Langworthy, Seward. Alternates: Mrs. M. A. B. Martin, Lincoln; 
Mrs. Lena A. Bates, Aurora. 

National Commission: Euclid Martin, Omaha; Albert G. Scott, 
Kearney. Alternates: William L. ]May, Omaha; John Lauterbach, Fair- 
bury. 

NEVADA. 

State Board of Commissioners: J. A. Yarrington, Chairman and Sec- 
retary, Hawthorne; J. W. Haines, Genoa; George Russell, Elko. 

National Board Lady Managers: Miss E. M. Russell, Elko; Mrs. D. 
M. Foley, Reno. Alternates: Miss Mary E. Davies, Genoa; Miss Jennie 
Torreyson, Carson. 

National Commission: J. W. Haines, Genoa; George Russell, Elko. 
Alternates: Enoch Strother, Virginia City; Richard Ryland, Reno. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

State Board of Commissioners: Charles H. Amsden, President, Pena- 
cook; George F. Page, Vice-President, Concord; Thomas J. Walker, Secre- 
tary, Plymouth; Frank M. Rollins, Treasurer, Manchester; Elijah M. Shaw, 
Executive Commissioner, Nashua. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. ]\Iyra B. F. Ladd, Lancaster; 
Mrs. Daniel Hall, Dover. Alternates: Mrs. Frank H. Daniell, Franklin 
Falls; Mrs. Ellen J. Coles, Lakeport. 

National Commission: Walter Aiken, Franklin; Charles D. McDuffee, 
Manchester. Alternates: George Van Dyke, Lancaster; Frank E. Kaley, 
Milford. 

NEW JERSEY. 

State Board of Commissioners: Stephen J. Meeker, President, Newark; 
Edward Bettle, Vice-President, Camden; Walter S. Lenox, Secretary and 
Treasurer, Trenton; Peter Hauck, Harrison; Frederick A. Canfield, Dover; 
Millard F. Ross, New Brunswick; Garret A. Hobart, Paterson; Peter E. 
Swartsweller, Belvidere. 

Lady Board of Managers: Mrs. Edwin vStevens, Chairman, Hoboken; 
Mrs. Thomas T. Kinney, Vice-Chairman, Newark; Mrs. Emily W^arren 
Roebling, Secretary, Trenton; Mrs. Robert Adrain, New Brunswick; Miss 
Mary S. Clark, Belvidere; Miss Rosa Murray, Paterson; Mrs. Sarah G. 
Ware, Salem; Mrs. Charles B. Yardley, East Orange. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Mary E. Busselle, Newark; 
Mrs. Martha B. Stevens, Hoboken. Alternates: Mrs. C. W. Compton, 
Newark; Mrs. A. M. Smith, Newark. 

National Commission: William J. Sewell, Camden; Thomas Smith, 
Newark. Alternates: Frederick S. Fish, Newark; Edwin A. Stevens, 
Hoboken, 

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NEW YORK. 

State Board of Commissioners: Chauncey M. Depew, President, New 
York; Gorton W. Allen, Vice-President, Auburn; John Foord, Secretary, 
Albany; Donald McNaughton, Executive Officer, Albany; John Boyd 
Thatcher, Albany; Louis M. Rowland, New York; Walter L. Sessions, 
Jamestown; Charles A. Sweet, Buffalo. 

Board of Women Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New York: 
First Judicial District — City and County of New York — Mrs. Arthur M. 
Dodge, 72 E. 34th street, New York; Mrs. Fred. R. Halsey, 22 W. 53d 
street, New York; Miss Annie Hemstrought, 164 E. 28th street, New York; 
Miss J. Imogen Howard, 20 Gt. Jones street. New York; Miss Anna Roose- 
velt, 689 Madison avenue. New York; Mrs. Oscar F. Straus, 27 W. 74th 
street. New York; Mrs. Geo. Waddington, 39 E. 9th street. New York; 
Mrs. H. Walter Webb, 202 Madison avenue. New York. Second Judicial 
District — Richmond, Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Westchester, Orange, Rock- 
land, Putnam and Dutchess — Mrs. Frederick P. Bellamy, 50 Garden Place, 
Brooklyn; Miss Elizabeth T. Minturn, Hastings-on-the-Hudson; Mrs. J. 
S. T. Stranahan, 269 Union street, Brooklyn. Third Judicial District — 
Columbia, Sullivan, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Schoharie and Rensselaer — 
Mrs. Erastus Corning, Albany; Mrs. Dean Sage, Menands. Fourth Judi- 
cial District — Warren, Saratoga, Washington, Essex, Franklin, St. Law- 
rence, Clinton, Montgomery, Hamilton, Fulton and Schenectady — Mrs. 
William J. Averill, Ogdensburgh. Fijth Judicial District— Ononda-ga., 
Oneida, Oswego, Herkimer, Jefferson and Lewis — Mrs. Howard G. White, 
Syracuse. Sixth Judicial District — Otsego, Delaware, Madison, Chen- 
ango, Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, Cortland and Schuyler — Mrs, 
Leslie Pell Clarke, Springfield Center; Mrs. Andrew D. White, Ithaca. 
Seventh Judicial District — Livingston, Wayne, Seneca, Yates, Ontario, 
Steuben, Monroe and Cayuga — Miss Caroline E. pennis. Auburn; Mrs. 
Charles F. Wadsworth, Geneseo. Eighth Judicial District — Erie, Chau- 
tauqua, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Niagara, Genesee, Allegany and Wyoming — 
Miss Maria M. Love, 184 Delaware avenue, Buffalo; Miss Frances Todd 
Patterson, Westfield. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Ralph Trautman, New York; 
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, New York. Alternates: Mrs. John Pope, 
New York; Mrs. A. M. Palmer, New York. 

National Commission: Chauncey M. Depew, New York; John Boyd 
Thatcher, Albany. Alternates: James H. Breslin, New York; James 
Roosevelt, New York. 

NORTH CAROLINA. 

State Board of Commissioners: W. F. Green, President, Franklinton; 
P. M. Wilson, Executive Commissioner, Winston; T. K. Bruner, Secretary 
and Commissioner of Exhibits, Raleigh; H. E. Fries, Salem; W. R. Cape- 
hart, Avoca; W. E. Stevens, Clinton; J. H. Gilmer, Greensboro; J. F. 
Payne, Alma; W. R. McClelland, Mooresville; J. B. Coffield, Everetts; 
C. D. Smith, Franklin; W. R. Williams, Falkland; Gov. Elias Carr, ex- 
officio, Raleigh. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Florence H. Kidder, Wilming- 
ton; Mrs. Charles Price, Salisbury. Alternates: Mrs. Sallie S. Cotton, 
Falkland; Miss V. Stella Divine, Wilmington. 

National Commission: Alexander B. Andrews, Raleigh; Thomas B, 
Keogh, Greensboro. Alternates: H. C. Carter, Fairfield; G. A. Bingham, 
Salisbury. 

NORTH DAKOTA. 

State Board of Commissioners; Martin Hector, President, Fargo; D. R, 



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McGinnis, Secretary, Grand Forks; Alfred Dickey, Executive Manager, 
Jamestown; Jacob A. Field, Bismarck; John M. Turner, Mandan; O. G. 
Meacham, Carrington. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. S. W. McLaughlin, Grand 
Forks; Mrs. W. D. McConnell, Fargo. Alternates: Mrs. Alice B. Brown, 
Lisbon; Mrs. Francis C. Holley, Bismarck. 

National Commission: H. P. Rucker, Grand Forks; Martin Ryan, 
Fargo. Alternates: Charles H. Stanley, Steele; Peter Cameron, Tyner. 

OHIO. 

State Board of Commissioners: W. W. Peabody, President, Cincinnati; 
Chas. M. Anderson, Vice-President, Greenville; W. T. Alberson, Secretary, 
Columbus; Lewis N. Bonham, Treasurer, Columbus; Daniel J. Ryan, 
Executive Commissioner, Columbus; Albert Schwill, Cincinnati; James W. 
See, Hamilton; Charles M. Harding, Franklin; David Hall, Bloom Center; 
A. O. Jones, Zanesville; A. C. Cummins, Mansfield; William E. Sefton, 
Canton; L. E. Holden, Cleveland; William Edwards, Cleveland; H. G. 
Baker, Defiance; P. M. Cullinan, New Lexington; Harvey P. Piatt, 
Toledo; William Ritchie, Hamilton; Mrs. Mary Hart, Glendale; Mrs. 
Walter Hartpence, Harrison. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Mary A, Hart, Glendale; Mrs. 
Walter Hartpence, Harrison. Alternates: Mrs. Harriet T.Upton, Warren; 
Mrs. Asa S. Bushnell, Springfield. 

National Commission: Harvey P. Piatt, Toledo; William Ritchie, 
Hamilton. Alternates: Lucius C. Cron, Piqua; Adolph Pluemer, Cincin- 
nati. 

OREGON. 

State Board of Commissioners: George T. Myers, President, Portland; 
Phil Metschan, Treasurer, Salem; C. B. Irvine, Secretary, Salem; W. F. 
Matlock, Pendleton; J. R. Carroll, Portland; E. B. McElroy, Salem; C. W. 
Ayres, Ashland; Mrs. M. Peyton, Salem; Mrs. E. W. Allen, Portland; 
George W. McBride, Salem; Henry Klippel, Medford, M. Wilkins, Coburg; 
J. A. Wright, Sparta. 

National Board of Lady Managers: Mrs. E. W. Allen, Portland; Mrs. 
Mary Payton, Salem. Alternates: Mrs. Anna R. Riggs, Portland; Mrs. 
Hattie E. Sladden, Eugene City. 

National Commission: Henry Klippel, Jacksonville; Martin Wilkins, 
Eugene City. Alternates: J. L. Morrow, Heppner; W. T. Wright, Union. 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

State Board of Commissioners: Gov. Robert E. Pattison, President, 
Harrisburg; Louis A. Watres, Vice-President, Scranton; Robert E.Wright, 
Secretary, Harrisburg; J. S. Dillinger, Assistant Secretary, Harrisburg; 
Rodney A. Mercur, Treasurer, Towanda; A. B, Farquhar, Executive Com- 
missioner, Harrisburg; John A. Woodward, Deputy Executive Commis- 
sioner, Harrisburg; Wilson M. Gearhart, Chief Clerk, Harrisburg; Albert 
J. Barr, Pittsburg; Luther S. Bent, Steelton; E. A. Bigler, Clearfield; 
Thomas Bradley, Philadelphia; Robert L. Brownfield. Phiadelphia; John 
I. Carter, Chatham, Chester County; W. W. Clendenin, New Castle; L. 
Clarke Davis, Philadelphia; Lewis Emery, Jr., Bradford: P. Foley, Pitts- 
burg; J. P. S. Gobin, Lebanon; James M. Guffey, Pittsburg; Wm. B. Gill, 
Philadelphia; J. K. P. Hall, St. Mary's, F'.k County; Wm. Hasson, Oil City; 
Joel A. Herr, Cedar Springs, Clinton County; Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones, 
Harrisburg; Mr3. Harriet Anne Lucas, Philadelphia; H, J. McAteer, Alex- 
andria; Miss Mary E. McCandless, Pittsburg; Towanda; Thomas P. Mer- 
ritt, Reading; Simon Muhr, Philadelphia; Robert Purvis, Philadelphia; R, 



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Bruce Ricketts, Wilkesbarre; Geo. N. Riley, Pittsburg; A. G. Roenigk, 
Pittsburg; Roger S. Searle, Montrose; A. W. Taylor, Philadelphia; Mrs. 
Ida A. Elkins Tyler, Philadelphia; C. C. Thompson, Warren; Joseph C. 
Walker, Gap, Lancaster County; Benjamin Whitman, Erie; P. A. B. Wid- 
ener, Philadelphia; Edward H. Williams, Philadelphia; Morgan B. Wil- 
liams, Wilkesbarre; John W. Woodside, Philadelphia; Mrs. Matilda Holt 
Shelton, Commissioner of Woman's Work, Philadelphia. 

National Board of Lady Alanagers: Miss Mary E. McCandless, Pitts- 
burg; Mrs. Harriett Anne Lucas, Philadelphia. Alternates: Mrs. Samuel 
Plumer, Franklin; Mrs. W. S. Elkins, Philadelphia. 

National Commission: R. B. Ricketts, Wilksbarre; John W. Wood- 
side, Philadelphia. Alternates: Geo. A. Macbeth, Pittsburg; John K. 
Hallock, Erie. 

RHODE ISLAND. 

State Board of Commissioners: E. Benjamin Andrews, President, 
Providence; Arthur H. Watson, Vice-President, Providence; Charlotte F. 
Dailey, Secretary and Treasurer, Providence; John C. Wyman, Executive 
Commissioner, Providence; John P. Sanborn, Newport; Hiram Howard, 
Providence; Walter A. Peck, Providence; Marsden J. Perry, Providence; 
Daniel B. Pond, Woonsocket; Richard Thornley, Greenwich. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Amey M. Starkweather, Paw- 
tucket; Miss Charlotte F. Dailey, Providence. Alternates: Mrs. George 
A. Mumford, Pawtucket; Miss Loraine P. Bucklin, Providence. 

National Commission: Lyman B. Goff, Pawtucket; Gardiner C. Sims, 
Providence. Alternates: Jeffrey Hazard, Providence; Lorillard Spencer, 
Newport. 

SOUTH CAROLINA. 

National Board Lady Managers: Miss Florida Cunningham, Charles- 
ton; Mrs. E. M. Brayton, Columbia. Alternates: Mrs. Clark Waring, 
Columbia; Mrs. C. A. Perry, Walhalla. 

National Commission: A. P. Butler, Columbia; John R. Cochran, Wal- 
halla. Alternates: E. L. Roche, Charleston; J. M. Tindal, Sumter. 

SOUTH DAKOTA. 

State Board of Commissioners: L. G. Ochsenreiter, President, Webster; 
T. H. Brown, Secretary, Sioux Falls; W. W. Taylor, Treasurer, Redfield; 
C. E. Hinds, Woonsocket; William M. Powers, Yankton; F. T. Evans, Sr., 
Hot Springs; P. F. McClure, Pierre; J. E. Pilcher, Custer City; John Baker, 
Dead wood; T. G. Quarve, Langford. 

Women's World Fair Commission: Mrs. Wm. Duff Haynie, President, 
Rapid City; Mrs. J. S. Oliver, Vice-Fresident, Huron; Mrs. L. Q. Jeffries, 
Secretary, East Pierre; Mrs. John E. Bennett, Treasurer, Clark; Mrs. A.C. 
Mellette, Watertown; Mrs. W. A. Burleigh, Yankton; Mrs. Geo. A. Silsby, 
Mitchell; Mrs. J. A. Trow, Madison; Mrs. Marie J. Gaston, Dead wood. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. John R. Wilson, Deadwood; Mrs. 
H. M. Barker, Huron. Alternates: Mrs. C. E. Daniels, Watertown; Mrs. 
Marie J. Gaston, Deadwood. 

National Commission: Merritt H. Day, Rapid City; William Mcln- 
tvre, Watertown. Alternates: S. A. Ramsey, Woonsocket; L. S. Bullard, 
Pierre. 

TENNESSEE. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Laura Gillespie, Nashville; Mrs. 
Susan Gale Cooke, Knoxville. Alternates: Mrs. Carrington Mason, Meni- 
phis; Mrs. J. J. McClung, Knoxville, 



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National Commission: Lewis T. Baxter, Nashville; Thomas L, Will- 
iams, Knoxville. Alternates: Rush Strong, Knoxville; A. B. Hurt, Chat- 
tanooga. 

TEXAS. 

State Board of Commissioners: H. B. Andrews, President, San An- 
tonio; William F. Ladd, 1st \'ice-President, Galveston; A. C. Herndon, 2d 
Vice-President, Houston; D. D. Bryan, Secretary, Galveston; W. L. Moody, 
Treasurer, Galveston; R. B. Parrot, Waco; W. C. Connor, Dallas; J. S. 
Rice, Hyatt; J. X. Browning, Clarendon; Julius Runge, Galveston; George 
Mann, Galveston; John Adriance, Galveston; Walter Gresham, Galveston; 
Mrs. W. H. Tobin, President State Board of Lady Managers, Austin; Mrs. 
Rosine Ryan, Lady Man. \ger-at-large, Austin. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Ida L. Turner, Fort Worth; 
Mrs. Mary A. Cochran, Dallas. Alternates: Mrs. K. C. McDaniel, Ander- 
son. (Vacancy.) 

National Commission: Archelaus M. Cochran, Dallas; John T. Dick- 
inson, Austin. Alternates; Lock McDaniel, Anderson; Henry B. Andrews, 
San Antonio. 

VERiMONT. 

State Board of Commissioners: Gov. L, K. Fuller, Brattleboro, Ex- 
officio; H. H. Mclntyre, Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Commissioner, 
West Randolph; B. B. Smalley, President, Burlington; A. J. Sibley, Mont- 
pelier; A. F. Walker, Chicago, 111.; Mrs. Ellen M. Chandler, Pomfret; Mrs. 
Elizabeth W Grinnell, Burlington; Mrs. Theresa J. Cochran, Groton; Mrs. 
Mina G. Hooker, Brattleboro. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Ellen M. Chandler, Pomfret; 
Mrs. Elizabeth V. Grinnell, Burlington. Alternates: Mrs. M. G. Hooker, 
Brattleboro; Mrs. T. J. Cochrane, Groton. 

National Commission: Henry H. Mclntyre, West Randolph; Bradley 
B. Smalley, Burlington. Alternates: Aldace F. V/alker, Rutland; A. J. 
Sibley, Montpelier. 

VIRGINIA. 

State Board of Commissioners: A, S. Buford, President, Richmond; 
John L. Hurt, Vice-President, Hurt's Store; T. C. Morton, Secretary, Rich- 
mond; M. S. Quarles, Treasurer, Richmond; John S. Apperson, Executive 
Business Commissioner, Richmond; Dr. A Brockenbrough, Chesapeake; 
M. Glennan, Norfolk; Geo. B. Finch, Boydton; W. I. Jordan, South Bos- 
ton; J. N. Brenaman, New Market; Grenville Gaines, Warrenton; Martin 
Williams, Bland, C. H.; J. H. H. Figgatt, Fincastle; Mrs. Lucy P. Beale, 
Buchanan; Mrs. F. J. Leigh, Norfolk. 

National Board Lady ^ianagers: Mrs. John S. Wise, Richmond; Mrs. 
K. S. G. Paul, Harrisonburg. Alternates; Miss Mattie P. Harris, Staunton; 
Mrs. M. H. Harrison, Westover. 

National Commission: Virginius D. Groner, Norfolk; John T. Harris, 
Harrisonburg. Alternates: Charles A. Heermans, Christiansburg; Alex- 
ander McDonald, Lynchburg. 

WASHINGTON. 

State Board of Commissioners: N. G. Blalock, President, Walla 
Walla; S. B. Conover, Vice-President, Port Townsend; P. C. Kauffman, 
Secretary, Tacoma; G. V. Calhoun, Executive Commissioner, La Conner; 
P. W. Rochester, Assistant Executive Commissioner, Seattle; L. R. Grimes, 
Ellensburgh; W. L. La Follette, Pullman; T. H. Cavanaugh, Olympia; C. 
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Washington Board of Lady Managers: Mrs. Alice Houghton, Presi- 
dent, Spokane; Mrs. C. W. Griggs, Secretary, Tacoma; Mrs. M. D. Owings, 
Olympia; Mrs. Josephine Ettinger, Palouse City. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. M. D. Owings, Olympia; Mrs. 
Alice Houghton, Spokane. Alternates: Mrs. C. W. Griggs, Tacoma; Mrs. 
Mrs. J. H. Stimson, Colfax. 

National Commission: Henry Drum, Tacoma; Charles B. Hopkins, 
Spokane Falls. Alternates: Geo. F. Cummin, Cheney; Clarence B. Bagley, 
Seattle. 

WEST VIRGINIA. 

State Board ot Commissioners: W. N. Chancellor, President, Parkers- 
burg; M. C. McKay, Secretary, Parkersburg; George M. Bowers, treasurer, 
Martinsburg; R. S. Carr, Charleston; John S. Naylor, Wheeling; Sidney 
Haymond, Quiet Dell. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. W. Newton Linch, Martinsburg; 
Miss Lily Irene Jackson, Parkersburg. Alternates: Mrs. G. W. Z. Black, 
Halltown; Miss Annie M. Mahan, Fayetteville. 

National Commission: James D. Butt, Harper's Ferry; J. W. St. Clair, 
Fayetteville. Alternates: John Corcoran, Wheeling; Wellington Vrooman, 
Parkersburg. 

WISCONSIN. 

State Board of Commissioners: A. Ledyard Smith, President, Apple- 
ton; Hugh H. Price, Vice-President, Black River Falls; Chas. W. Graves, 
Secretary, Viroqua; John H. Savage, Treasurer, Shullsburg; Robert B. 
Kirkland, Executive Commissioner, Jefferson; Phillip Allen, Jr., Mineral 
Point; Mrs. John Winans, Janesville; Harry B. Sanderson, Milwaukee; 
Mrs. Geo. C. Ginty, Chippewa Falls; Mrs. William Pitt Lynde, Milwaukee; 
John H. Coburn, West Salem; William Rahr, Manitowoc. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Flora B. Ginty, Chippewa Falls; 
Mrs. William P. Lynde, Milwaukee. Alternates: Mrs. S. S. Fifield, Ash- 
land; Mrs. J. M. Smith, Mineral Point. 

National Commission; Phillip Allen, Jr., Mineral Point; 'John N. 
Coburn, West Salem. Alternates; David W.Curtis, Fort Atkinson; Myron 
Reed, Superior. 

WYOMING. 

State Board of Commissioners; John S. Harper, President, Sundance. 
Elwood Mead, Secretary, Cheyenne; John McCormick, Treasurer, Sheri' 
dan; Frank O. Williams, Saratoga; L. D. Ricketts, Cheyenne. 

National Board Lady Commissioners: Mrs. F. H. Harrison, Evanston; 
Mrs. Francis E. Hall, Cheyenne. Alternates: Mrs. Elizabeth A. Stone, 
Evanston; Miss Gertrude M. Huntington, Saratoga. 

National Commission: Asahel C. Beckwith, Evanston; Henry G. Hay, 
Cheyenne. Alternates: Asa S. Mercer, Cheyenne; John J. McCormick, 
Sheridan. 

ALASKA. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. A. K. Delaney, Juneau; Mrs. 
Isabella J. Austin, Sitka. Alternates: Miss Maxwell Stevenson, Juneau; 
Mrs. Lena Vanderber, Sitka. 

National Commission: Edward de Groff, Sitka; Louis L. Williams, 
Juneau. Alternates: Carl Spuhn, Killisnoo; N. A. Fuller, Juneau. 

This territory has no Territorial Commissioners; and while it has no 
building, exhibits are made m the United States Government Building 
under the auspices of the Interior Department. 

ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO AND OKLAHOMA. 

Arizona Board of Commissioners: S. P. Behan, President, Prescott; Will 
C. Barnes, Vice-President. Holbrook; R.C. Brown, Treasurer, Tucson; W. K. 



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Mead, Tombstone; George F. Coates, Phoenix; Miss Lorette Lovell, Tus- 
con; Mrs. T, J. Butler, Prescott. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Thomas J. Butler, Prescott; 
Miss Laura Lovell, Tucson. Alternates: Mrs. George Hoxworth, Flag- 
staff; Mrs. H. S. Peto, Tombstone. 

National Commission: George F. Coats, Phoenix; William K. Meade, 
Tombstone. Alternates: W. L. Van Horn, Flagstaff; Herbert H. Logan, 
Phoenix. 

New Mexico Board of Commissioners: W. T. Thornton, President, 
Santa Fe; Miguel Salazar, Vice-President, Las Vegas; W. H. H. Llewellyn, 
Secretary, Las Cruces; E. V. Chavez, Treasurer, Socorro; Alice B. Mont- 
gomery, Assistant Secretary, Eddy; E. B. Mills, Superintendent of Exhibits, 
Las Vegas. 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs. Cora L, Bartlett, Santa Fe; 
Mrs. Franc L. Albright, Albuquerque, Alternates: Mrs. Louisa D. Camp- 
bell, Eddy; Miss Lucia Paria, Albuquerque. 

National Commission: T. C. Gutierres, Albuquerque; R. M. White, 
Hermosa. Alternates: Louis C. Tetard, Las Vegas; C. B. Eddy, Eddy, 

Oklahoma Board of Commissioners : Gov. A. J. Seay, President; 
Guthrie; Mort. Bixler, Vice-President, Norman; H. C. St. Clair, Treasurer, 
Kingfisher; Miss Mattie B. Kelso, Secretary, El Reno: A. C, Scott, Execu- 
tive Commissioner, Oklahoma City; Lyman Cone, Superintendent of Ex- 
hibits, Guthrie; C, A, Holit, Beaver City; Miss May I. Overstreet, Beaver 
City; Mrs, Mort, Bixler, Norman; Mrs, H. C, St. Clair, Kingfisher; E, L. 
Hallock, Guthrie; Mrs. C, ^L Barnes, Guthrie; W, D. Holloman, Oklahoma 
City; Mrs, A, ^L Halloman, Oklahoma City; J, E. Sater, Stillwater; Mrs. J. 
E. Sater, Stillwater; Rev, J, H, Buchanan, Chandler; Mrs, J, H, Buchanan, 
Chandler; Dr, Chas, W, Kirk, Tecumseh; Mrs. Chas. W. Kirk, Tecumseh; 
A. L, Goddard, El Reno, 

National Board Lady Managers: Mrs, M, P, H, Beeson, Reno City; 
Mrs. Genevive Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Allernates: Mrs. Julia Wallace, 
Oklahoma Citv; Mrs. Mary S. McNeal, Guthrie, 

National Commission: Othneil Beeson, Reno City; Frank R, Gammon, 
Guthrie. Alternates: John Wallace, Oklahoma City; Joseph W, McNeal, 
Guthrie. 

UTAH. 

Territorial Board of Commissioners: R. C. Chambers, President, Salt 
Lake City; Richard Mackintosh, Vice-President, Salt Lake City; E. A, 
McDaniel, Secretary, Ogden; Heber M. Wells, Treasurer, Salt Lake City; 
N. A. Empy, Executive Commissioner, Salt Lake City, 

Territorial Board Lady Managers: Mrs. F, S, Richards, President, 
Salt Lake City; Mrs. F, D, Richards, Vice-President, Ogden; Mrs. Electa 
Bullock, Provo; Mrs, C. W, Lyman, Salt Lake City; Mrs. G. W, Thatcher, 
Logan; Miss May Preston, Secretary, Salt Lake City, 

Salt Lake County World's Fair Association: Executive Board: Mrs, 
E. B, Wells, President; Mrs. G, Y, Wallace, 1st Vice-President; Mrs. Pris- 
cilla Jennings, 2d Vice-President; Mrs, Margaret A, Caine, Secretary; Miss 
Emma McCormick, Assistant Secretary; Mrs, Bertha Bamberger, Treas- 
urer; Mrs, C. E. Allen, Mrs, Ann D. Groesbeck, Mrs, Sarah Boggs, Mrs. 
Kate Smith, Mrs, Amelia F, Young, 

National Board of Lady Managers: Mrs, M. B, Salisbury, Salt Lake 
City; Mrs. T, A, Whalen, Ogden, Alternates: Miss Maggie Keogh, Salt 
Lake City; Mrs. Susan B, Emery, Park City. 

National Commission: P. H. Lannan, Salt Lake City; Fred J, Kiesel 
Ogden. Alternates: Charles Crane, Kanosh; Wm. M, Ferry, Park City. 



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FOREIGN COMMISSIONERS. 

ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 

Mr. Carlos R. Gallardo, Pres dent National Commission, Commissioner 
General; Lieut. Juan S. Attwell, Commissioner, Secretary National Com- 
mission; Mr. H. D. Hoskold, Commissioner; Mr. Gustavo Niederlein, Com- 
missioner; Mr. Enrique M. Nelson, Commissioner; Mr. Carlos Olivera, 
Commissioner. 

AUSTRIA. 

Hon. Anton von Palitschek-Palmforst, L. L. D., Imperial Royal Com- 
missioner General; Mr. Alexander Poppovics, Assistant Imperial Royal 
Commissioner; Caston Bodart, LL. D., Assistant Imperial Royal Commis- 
sioner; Mr. Emil Bressler, Architect, Imperial Royal Commission; Mr. 
Hans Temple, Delegate for Fine Arts; Mr. Victor Pillwax, Treasurer, Mr. 
Josef Grunwald, Official Commercial Representative; Mr. Emil S. Fischer, 
Superintendent; Mr. Raphael Kuhe, Official Commercial Representative; 
Mr. Robert B. Jentzsch, Superintendent of Old Vienna. 

BELGIUM. 

Mr. Astere Vercruysse, Senator, President of Commission; Mr. Alfred 
Simonis, Senator, Comrfiissioner General; H. E. Alfred Le Ghait, E. E. 
and M. P. of Belgium; Honorable Lambert Tree, Honorary Counselor; Mr. 
Paul Hagemans, ConsulGeneral, Honorary member; Mr. Charles Henrotin, 
Consul, Honorary Member; M. Edouard Guerette, Delegate of the Com- 
missioner General; M. Raymond Vaxelaire, Secretary of the Commission: 
M. Raymond Le Ghait, Secretary of the Commission; Mr. Andre Simonis, 
Secretary of the Commission. 

BRAZIL. 

H. E. Marshal Jose Simeao de Oliveira, President National Commis- 
sion; Dr. Ladislau Netto, Vice-President National Commission; Mr. Adol- 
pho Aschoff, Secretary of the National Commission; Mr. H. J. de Paiva 
Coutinho, Commissioner; Baron of Marajo, Commissioner; Commodore 
Innocencio de Lemos Bastos, Commissioner; Captain Lieut. Jose Martins 
de Toledo, Commissioner; Dr. Julio Cesar Brandao, Commissioner; Mr. 
Graciano A. de Azombuja, Commissioner; Lieut. -Col. F. M. Souza Aguiar, 
Commissioner; Prof. Rodjlpho Bernardelli, Commissioner of Fine Arts; 
Mr. M, Aguiar Moreira, Commissioner; Mr. Zozimo Barrozo, Commissioner; 
Mr. Antonio Guimaraes, Commissioner; Lieut. Joao Baptista da Motta, 
Commissioner; Capt. Lieut. Joao Cordeiro da Graca, Commissioner; Lieut. 
Antonio de Barros Baneto, Commissioner; Lieut. Alexandre Leal, Aide to 
President of Commission; Mr. Theobaldo de Souza Queiroz, Aide to Com- 
mission; Mr. F. F. Napoleao, Aide to Commission; Mr. H. Barjona de 
Miranda, Aide to Commission; Mr. Luiz Michelet, Aide to Commission. 

BRITISH GUIANA. 

Mr. J. J. Quelch, Commissioner. 

BULGARIA. 

Prof. Vulko I. Shopoff, Delegate. 

CANADA. 

Mr. J. S. Larke, Executive Commissioner; Mr. A. R. C. Selwyn, C. M. 
G., LL. D., etc., Director Geological Survey; Mr, Wilbert David Dimock, 
Secretary: Mr. L. Woolverton, Superintendent (Horticulture); Mr. J. A. J. 



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joulet, Superintendent (Agricultural Machinery); Mr. James Clarke, Super- 
intendent (Machinery); Mr. W. Morton, Superintendent (Liberal Arts); Mr. 
C. F. Cox, Superintendent (Fish and Fisheries); Mr. J. H. Tracey, Private 
Secretary; Mr. Chas. de Cazes, Assistant Indian Commissioner; Mr. S. P. 
May, D, C. L., Director for Ontario (Liberal Arts); Mr. Henry Wade, Pri- 
vate Secretary; Hon. A. C. P. R. Landry, Commissioner for Quebec; Rev. 
P, N. Bruchesi, Canon, Advisory Commissioner for Quebec; Hon. L. Beau- 
bien. Advisory Commissioner lor Quebec; Hon. J. G. Joly de Lothiniere, 
Advisory Commissioner for Quebec; Mr. S. C. Sterenson, Advisory Com- 
missioner for Quebec; Mr. Wm. Mcintosh, Superintendent for Quebec 
(Mines); Hon. W. D. Perley, Commissioner for Northwest territories: Mr. 
Alex. McKay, Advisory Commissioner for Nova Scotia; Mr. R. W. Starr, 
Advisory Commissioner for Nova Scotia; Mr. Charles F. Law, Commis- 
sioner, Province of British Columbia; Mr. N. Awrey, M. P. P., Commis- 
sioner for Ontario; Mr. D. Ewart, Assistant Architect, Canadian Depart- 
ment Public Works. 

CAPE COLONY. 

Mr. L. Wiener, M. L. A., Commissioner; Mr. M. Berliner, Assistant 
Commissioner; Mr. S. Berliner, Secretary to Commissioner; Mr. J. W. 
Cundhill, Superintendent Diamond Court. 

CEYLON. 

Hon. J. J. Grinlinton, M, L. C, Special Commissioner; Mr. W. W. Pole 
Fletcher, Assistant Commissioner; Capt. Arthur Hansard, Local Assistant 
Commissioner. 

CHILI. 

S. M. Harris, Representative of the English Nitrate Company. 

COSTA RICA. 

H. E. Sr. D. Manuel M. de Peralta, E. E. and M. P., President of Com- 
mission; Senor Dr. Don David J. Guzman, Vice-President, Commissioner 
General; Senor D. Joaquin Barnardo Calvo, Charge 'd Affairs, ad mte7'im, 
Secretary Commissioner; Senor Don Anastasio Alfaro, Vice Secretary and 
Commissioner Archaeological Department; Dr. Francisco J. Rucavado, 
Commissioner-Treasurer; Senor Dr. D. Felipe Gallegos, Commissioner; 
Senor D. Guillermo Gerard, Commissioner. 

COLOMBIA. 

Mr. T. Paredes, Special Commissioner for Antioquia; Mr. H. R. Lemly, 
Commissioner General; Mr. E. E. Britton, Commissioner for Antioquia; Mr. 
Miguel Montoya, Commissioner for Boyaca; Mr. Juan M. Davila, Com- 
missioner for Magdalena. 

CURACAO. 

Mr. Milton O. Higgins, Commissioner. 

DENMARK. 

Mr. C. Michelsen, President of Commission; Mr. Emil Meyer, Com- 
missioner General; Mr. Oscar Matthiesen, Commissioner of Fine Arts; Mr. 
Otto A. Dreier, Secretary of Commission; Mr. Carl Cortsen, Chief of In- 
stallation; Mr. K. Arne Peterson, Architect; Mr. Christian Nielsen, Decorator; 
Mr. V. Christesen, Delegate; Mr. I)ernhard Hertz, Delegate; Mr. H. A. 
Kahler, Delegate; Mr. Carl Rohl-Smith, Delegate for Fine Arts; Dr. Charles 
E. Taylor, F. R. G. S., Special Delegate from Danish West Indies. 

ECUADOR. 

Colonel M. N. Arizaga, Charge d'Affairs and Delegate General; Senor 
Don G. Perez, Secretary; Senor Don T. G. Sanchez, Commissioner; Mr. L. 
J. Millet, Commissioner; Mr. Oscar Jander, Assistant Commissioner. 



216 CONKEY'S COMPLETE GUIDE 

FRANCE. 

M. Camille Krantz, Commissioner General; M. Edmond Bruwaert: 
Consul General, Deputy Commissioner General; M. Monthiers, Secretary 
General; M. Verstraete, Vice Consul, Secretary; M. Heilmann, Treasurer, 
M. Mascart, Engineer, Chief of Installations; M. Max Duchanoy, Attache; 
Baron Rene de Batz, Attache; M. Lefeuvre Meaulle, Attache; M. Masure, 
Attache; M. de la Touanne, Electrical Engineer; M. Vassilliere, Special 
Commissioner for Agriculture; M. Roger-Martin, Assistant Special Com- 
missioner for Agriculture; M. Mesnier, Assistant Special Commissioner for 
Agriculture; M. Monteils, Special Commissioner of Algieria; M. Scherer 
Secretary for Colonies; M. Roger Ballu, Principal Commissioner for Fine 
Arts: M. Giudicelli, Assistant Commissioner for Fine Arts; M. Motte, 
Architect, Decorator; M. Dubuisson, Architect; M. Sandier, Architect; 
M. Yvon, Architect; M. T. de Balincourt, Lieut. French Navy, Command- 
ing Sailors' Detachment; M. Maurice de Vilmorin, Horticulture; M. 
Georges Lamaille, Bronzes, Crystals; M. D. Astric, Secretary for Fine Arts; 
M. H. L. Guerin, Secretary of the Fine Arts Committee; M. J. Perrin, 
Special Delegate of Manufacture Nationale de Sevres; M. Pierre Masson, 
Attache to Commissioner General; M. A. Paradis, Attache to Fine Arts 
Commission; M. T. Bilbaut, Special Commissioner for Colonies; Marquis 
de Chasseloup Laubat, Special Commissioner for the World's Congress 
Auxiliary. 

GERMANY. 

Honorable Adolf Wermuth, Imperial Commissioner; Mr. Franz Berg, 
Assistant Imperial Commissioner; Mr. Karl Hoffacker, Architect, Imperial 
Commission; Mr. Johannes Radke, Architect, Imperial Commission; Mr. 
Aug. Fiedler, Architect, Imperial Commission; Mr. Hugo Schnars-Alquist, 
Delegate for Fine Arts; Mr. Carl Haller, Engineer, Imperial Commission; 
Mr. Gustav Spiess, Member for Commercial Affairs, Imperial Commission; 
Mr. George Franke, Secretary, Imperial Commission; Mr. Fritz Kuehne- 
mann. Mechanical Engineer; Dr. Lobach, Electrical Engineer; Mr. Conrad 
Engel, Bergassessor. 

Council of Deputies — Mr. Julius Beissbarth, Nuremberg-Furth Industry; 
Mr. Doehn, Imperial Postal and Telegraph Exhibit; Mr. Ehrhardt, Civil En- 
gine'er, Nurember-Furth Industry; Director Robert Erhardt, Metallurgical 
hibit; Professor Finkler, Imperial Educational Exhibit; Mr. Richard Ex- 
Fischer, Chemical Collective Exhibit; Mr. Paul Gesell, Royal Saxon Por- 
celain Exhibit; Mr. Fritz Graber, Textile Collective Exhibit; Mr. Gisbert 
Gillhausen, Gun Exhibit; Mr. Hartmann, Boyal Architect, Engineering 
Exhibit; Mr. Haueisen, Chemical Collective Exhibit; Mr. Richard Horst- 
mann. Royal Prussian Porc-^l-in and Jewelry Collective Exhibits; Pro- 
fessor Hoffman, Textile Collective Exhibit; Mr. Franz Jaffe, Royal Archi- 
tect, Imperial Educational Exhibit; Dr. Ulrich Jahn, Ethnological Ex- 
hibit, "German Village;" Dr. Kallen, Imperial Educational Exhibit; 
Conservator Kopp, Bavarian Industrial Art Exhibit; Mr. Lauter, Civil 
Engineer, Gun Exhibit; Mr. Meyer, Civil Engineer, Metallurgical Exhibit; 
President O. W. Meysenburg, Electrical Exhibit; Mr. Petri, Royal Archi- 
tect, Royal Prussian Railway Exhibit; Mr. J. Scheurer, Civil Engineer, Gen- 
eral Railroad Exhibit; Professor Spatz, Metallurgical Exhibit; Dr. Albert 
C. Weil, Bathing and Mineral Exhibit; Professor Dr. Watzoldt, Imperial 
Educational Exhibit; Dr. Lichtenfelt, Imperial Educational Exhibit; Prof. 
Goetz, Art Industrial School, Baden; Prof. Kips, Royal Prussian Porcelain 
Exhibit; Mr. Friedrich Dernberg, Representative German Press; Director 
Dernburg, Ethnological Exhibit, "German Village;" Mr. Seitz, Industrial 
Art Exhibit; Prof. Riedler, Engineering Exhibit; Mr. Hundeshagen, Civil 
Engineer, Machinery Exhibit; Mr. Guenther, Givil Engineer, Machinery 



WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 217 

Exhibit; Mr. Eduard Schrickell, Iron Industry; Director Josef Gorz, Agri- 
cultural Exhibit; Professor Hans Virchow, Educational Exhibit; Dr. Kob- 
lanck, Educational Exhibit; Mr. Dahlen, Wine Exhibit; Mr. Hartmann, 
Electrical Exhibit; Mr. von Siemens, Electrical Exhibit. 

GREAT BRITAIN. 

Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart., Member of Royal Commission; Mr. James 
Dredge, Member of Royal Commission; Mr. Walter H. Harris, Member of 
Royal Commission; Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Secretary Royal Com- 
mission; Mr. E. H. Lloyd, Assistant Secretary and General Superintendent 
Royal Commission; Mr. Ralph A. Harbord, Private Secretary; Mr, J. W. 
Beck, Superintendent (Fine Arts); Mr. E. H. Fishbourne, M. A., LL B., 
Superintendent (Manufactures); Mr. H. D. Wilkinson, M. I. E. E,, Superin- 
tendent (Machinery, etc.); Mr. Thomas Baker, Superintendent (Transpor- 
tation); Mr. H. W. Pearson, Superintendent (Agriculture). 

Honorary Solicitors, Messrs. Wilson, Bristows and Carpmael, 1; Copt- 
hall Buildings, E. C. 

Honorary Architect, Col. Robert W. Edis, F. S. A., F. R. I. B. A., 14, 
Fitzroy Square, W. 

Honorary Auditors, Messrs. J. O. Chad wick and Son, 95, Finsbury 
Pavement, E. C. 

Bankers, Messrs. Coutts & Co., Strand, W. C. 

Offices in London, Society of Arts, John street, A.delphi, London, W. C. 

Offices in Chicago, Victoria House, Jackson Park, Chicago. 

GREECE. 

Mr. Charles D. Hutchinson, President Royal Commission; Mr. D. 
Jannopoulo, Royal Commissioner. 

GUATEMALA. 

Manuel Lemas, President of the Commission; Dr. Gustavo E. Guz- 
man, Vice-President; Ignacio Solis, Secretary; Leon Rosenthal, Treasurer; 
Senor Don Geo. C. Monzon, Attache. 

HAYTI. 

Hon. Frederick Douglas, Commissioner; Mr. Charles A. Preston, Com- 
missioner; Mr. Alfred Harrisse, Secretary; Mr. Gustave Stromberg, 
Attache. 

HONDURAS. 

Messrs. Good & Fellows, 835 Rookery Building, Chicago, Represent- 
atives. 

INDIA. 

Richard Blechynden, Royal Commissioner. 

ITALY. 

H. E. Marquis Enrico Ungaro, Royal Commissioner General; Count 
Detalmo Brazza di Savorgnan, Royal Commissioner; Dr. Ettore Candiani, 
Commissioner; Signor V. Zeggio, Royal Commissioner; Chev. Thomas 
Silombra, Commissioner; Signor Angelo del Nero, Commissioner for the 
Fine Arts; Count R. Piola Caselli, General Secretary; Chev. L. Caldarazzo, 
Secretary; Signor G. Vignadal Ferro, Secretary; Signor L. D'Urso, Secre- 
tary; Chev. G. Guetta, Official General Agent. 

JAPAN. 

H.E.Gozo Tateno, Vice-President of Commission; Honorable S. Tegi- 
ma. Imperial Commissioner; Mr. C. Matsudaira, Imperial Commissioner; 
Mr. M. Kuru, Official Architect; Mr. T. Uchida,-Secretary; Mr. H. Ishizawa, 
Secretary; Mr. K. Tawara, Secretary; Mr. H. Akiyama, Secretary; Mr. Y. 
Yambe, Secretary; Mr. H. Shimamura, Councilor; Mr. U. Saito, Councilor; 



218 CONKEY'S COMPLETE GUIDE 

Mr. K. Niwa, Councilor; Mr. S. Nishimura, Councilor; Mr. M. Taketo', 
Councilor; Mr. K. Watano, Councilor; Mr. J. Takamine, Councilor; Mr. R. 
Hayakawa, Councilor; Mr. Shioda, Councilor; Mr. S. Okamoto, Councilor; 
Mr. S. Amano, Examiner of Art Works. 

JAMAICA. 

Hon. Lieut-Col. C. J. • Ward, C. M. G., Commissioner; Mr. George 
Augustus Douct, Assistant Commissioner; Mr. Edmund Haughton San- 
guinetti, Secretary. , 

JOHORE. 

Dato Sri Amar d'Raja, C. M. G., Secretary to H. H. the Sultan, Com- 
missioner; Mr. H. W. Lake, Deputy Commissioner. 

KOREA. 

Hon. Chung Kyung Won, Royal Commissioner; Mr. Ye Sung Soo, 
Special Commissioner; Mr. An Key Sun, Interpreter; Mr. Chung Pong 
Hwan, Interpreter; Hon. Ye Cha Yun, Korean Charge d'Affaires. 

LIBERIA. 

Hon. William E. Rothery, Commissioner; Hon. Alfred B. King, Com- 
missioner; Mr, William C. Brockmeyer, Secretary. 

MEXICO. 

Senor Lie. Miguel Serrano, Delegate General; Engineer Fernando 
Ferrari Perez, Secretary General and Sub-Delegate; Senor Lie. Jose F. 
Godoy, Auxiliary Agent; Senor Don M. G. Torres, Commissioner; Senor 
Don A. D. y Hernandez, Commissioner; Senor Don M. H.de Azua, Com- 
missioner; Senor Don A. R. Nuncio, Commissioner; Senor Don M. de las 
Piedras, Commissioner; Senor Don Othon de Palacio y Magarola, Com- 
missioner; Senor Don M. M. Chabert, Commissioner; Senor Don Julio 
Poulat, Commissioner; Senor Don Rosendo Sandoval, Commissioner; Senor 
Don C. Sellerier,Commissioner; Senor Don J. D. Fleury,Commissioner;Senor 
Don Lauro Viadas, Commissioner; Senor Don F. Atristain, Commissioner; 
Senor Don R. Escobar, Commissioner; Senor Don Rafael Mallen, Com- 
missioner; Senor Don A. M. Chavez, Commissioner; Prof. Mariano J. Garfias, 
Assistant Secretary; Senor Don Jose Oteo, Commissioner; Senor Don M. 
Caballero, Commissioner. 

MONACO. 

A. Mackie, Commissioner; Mr. Louis H. Ayme, Assistant Commis- 
sioner. 

NETHERLANDS. 

Mr. George Birkhoff, Jr., Royal Commissioner General; Mr. Hubert 
Vos, Acting Commissioner of Fine Arts; Mr. A. Preyer, General Manager 
of Fine Arts. 

NEW SOUTH WALES. 

Honorable Dr. Arthur Renwick, M. L. C, Executive Commissioner; 
Mr. Herbert J. Renwick, B. A., Private Secretary; Mr. Robert Hudson, J. 
P., General Superintendent; Mr. Thomas Pugh, Assistant General Super- 
intendent; Mr. Alexander Bruce, J. P., Superintendent (Stock); Mr. Joseph 
E. Carne, F. G. S., Superintendent (Mines); Mr. W. Fitzwilliam Terry, 
Superintendent (Liberal Arts); Mr. Joseph F. McGuinness, Assistant Pri- 
vate Secretary; Mr. James Martin, M. P., Member of the Commission; Mr. 
C. C. Skarratt, Member of the Commission; Dr. Carl F. Fischer, Member of 
the Commission. 

NORWAY. 

Mr. Chr. Ravn, Royal Commissioner General ; Mr. Annas C. R. Berle, Sec- 
retary Royal Commission; Mr. S. A. Buch, Commissioner of Fish and 



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Fisheries; Mr. Otto Binding, Commissioner of Fine Arts; Mr. Torolf Prytz, 
Commissioner of Manufacture; M. N. Kielland, Architect to the Royal 
Commission; Mr, Otto Enger, Assistant to Commission of Fish and Fish- 
eries; Mr. S. Binding, Volunteer Assistant to Commissioner of Fine Arts; 
Mr. I. K. Boyesen, Chairman of Royal (Local) Committee; Mr, O. A. Thorp, 
Secretary of Royal (Local) Committee. 

ORANGE FREE STATE. 

E. R. Grobler, Commissioner. 

PARAGUAY. 

Dr. Cesar Gondra, E. E. and M. P., President ad honorem; Dr. Emil 
Hassler, Commissioner General; Mr. A. R. Sainte Croix, Commissioner; 
Mr. Frederico Fernandez, Assistant Commissioner; Mr. Fidel G. Pierra, 
Assistant Commissioner. 

PERSIA. 

Honorable E. Spencer Pratt, Commissioner General; Mr. Clarence 
Andrews, Assistant Commissioner. 

PORTUGAL. 

Mr. J. M. do Outeiro Ribeiro, Adjunct Commissioner; Mr. S. Chapman 
Simms, Vice Counsel and Secretary of Commission. 

RUSSIA, 

H. E. Imperial Chamberlain P. de Gloukhovskoy, Commissioner Gen- 
eral; Mr. Constantine de Rakouza-Souscheffsky, Imperial Commissioner; 
Mr. A. de Tsherep-Spiridovitch, Imperial Commissioner; Mr. Alexis de 
Kobellatzky, Member of the Imperial Commission; Mr. Robert de Lingen, 
Imperial Commissioner; Mr. A,. Zelenoy, Imperial Commissioner; Mr. 
Franz Uthemann, Imperial Commissioner; Mr. M. Bilbasoff, Imperial Com- 
missioner; Mr. P. Andreiev, Delegate of the Ministry of War; Prof. Dimsha, 
Delegate of the Ministry of Public Instruction; Mr. B. Tedorov, Delegate 
of the Imperial Appanages; Mr. Wladimir de Weshniakoff, Imperial Com- 
missioner; Mr. I. Lebedkine, Delegate of the Ministry of State Domainr; 
Mr. A. Niedikhliaieff, Delegate of the Commission of the Central Asian 
Exhibition of Moscow; Baron Pillar von Pilchau, Delegate of the Imperial 
Appanages; Count Rostovtzef, Delegate of the Ministry of State Domains; 
Prof. William Williams, Delegate of the Ministry of State Domains; Mr. A. 
Roppet, Architect, Imperial Commission; Prince S. Volkonsky, Delegate 
of the Ministry of Public Domains; Mr. T. Kamensky, Sculptor; Mr. E. 
Baikov, Clerk; Mr. Alexander Grinevsky, Imperial Commissioner. 

Delegates — Ladies' Committee under the High Protection of Her 
Majesty: Princess M. Bhakhovskay, Maid of Honor of Her Majesty. 

Charity and Educational Institutions of the Empress Mary: Mrs. T. 
Semetchkin; Mr. O. Aderkas, Councilor of College. 

Ministry of War: Mr. A. Heard, Councilor of State; Mr. P. Andreev 
Technological Engineer. 

Ministry of Marine: Mr. D. Mertvaho, Post Captain; Mr. E. Kolbas- 
sieff, Lieutenant; Mr. N. Oglablinsky, Lieutenant. 

Ministry of Interior: Mr. Bernhard, Civil Engineer. 

Ministry of Public Instruction: Prince B. Volkonsky, Gentlemen of the 
Emperor's Bed Chamber; Mr. L. Dimsha, Professor of St. Peterburg Uni- 
versity; Mr. T. Kovalevsky, Secretary of College. 

Ministry of Finance: Mr. J. lanschul. Actual Councilor of State, Pro- 
fessor of University of Moscow; Mr. I). Konovalov, Councilor of State, Pro- 
fessor of University of vSt. Petersburg. 

Ministry of Public Domains: Mr. A. Plietnoff, Member of the Imperial 
Russian Commission; Count Stenbock-Fermor, Councilor of Court; Mr, 



220 CONKEY'S COMPLETE GUIDE 

Jigalkovsky, Councilor of Court; Mr. J. Lebedkine, Assessor of College; 
Count J. Rostovtzov, Secretary of College; Mr. M. Konshin, Secretary of 
College; Mr. M. Williams, Professor of Petrovsky Academy; Mr. P. Slie- 
skin, Professor of Petrovsky Academy, 

Ministry of Ways and Communications: Mr. A. Ryjoff, Councilor of 
Court; Mr. P. Protopopov, Honorable Councilor. 

Department Imperial Appanages: Mr. M. B, Fedoroff, Councilor of 
Court; Baron Pilar Von Pilchau, Assessor of College. 

Central Asian Exhibition at Moscow: Mr. A. Niedikhliaieff. 

Adjoints: Mr. G. Gagenfelden, Commissioner of the Board of Govern- 
ment Stamped Paper; Mr. I. Petrovo-Roppet, Architect; Mr. A. Protopopov, 
Delegate of the Imperial Technical Society; Mr. F. Kamensky, Sculptor; 
Mr. E. Baikoff, Employe; Mr. R. Meltzer, Etalagist. 

SIAM. 

Phra Suriya Nuvatr, Royal Commissioner; Hon. Isaac Townsend 
Smith, Consul General, Assistant Commissioner; Luang Nephat Kulaphongs, 
Assistant Royal Commissioner. 

SPAIN. 

H. E. Senor Don Enrique Dupuy de Lome, Minister Plenipotentiary, 
Royal Commissioner-General; Senor Don A. G. del Campillo, Secretary of 
Legation, Assistant Commissioner General; Don Rafael Pnig y Vails, Civil 
Engineer, Special Commissioner for Industry; Don Juaquin Pavia, Archi- 
tect, Special Commissioner for Fine Arts; Capt. Don Juan de Cologan, 
Royal Engineers, Special Commissioner of the Department of War; Lieut. 
Don Juan Ibarreta, Royal Navy, Special Commissioner of the Department 
of Navy; Don Rosendo Fernandez, Delegate of the Chamber of Commerce 
of Havana, Cuba; The Marquis of Villalobar, Attache to the Legation and 
Commission; Don Manuel Perez Seoane, Attache to the Legation and Com- 
mission; Mr. Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, Consul, Attache to the Commis- 
sion; Don Jaime Parlade, Treasurer, Attache to the Commission; Don Juan 
Vilardell, Attache to the Commission; Don Juan Espina, Assistant Com- 
missioner of Fine Arts. 

ST. THOMAS. 

Dr. Charles E. Taylor, Commissioner. 

SWEDEN. 

Mr. Artur Leffler, Royal Commissioner; Mr. Axel Welin, Secretary; 
Mr. Tom Bergendal, Special Commissioner for Manufactures; Mr. Carl 
Dellwik, Superintendent Swedish Section Machinery Hall; Mr. Robert 
Lindbolm, Resident Commissioner; Baron Nils Posse, Special Commis- 
sioner for Tourist Department; Mr. Victor E. Rhodin, Official Commercial 
Representative; Mr. Gust. Wickman, Architect; Mr. Anders L. Zorn, Spec- 
ial Commissioner of Fine Arts; Mr. Erik Lundquist, Assistant Private 
Secretary. 

SWITZERLAND. " 

Mr. James Perrenoud, Executive Commissioner; Mr. Arnold Holinger, 
Commissioner. 

TRINIDAD. 

Mr, Harry Vincent, Executive Commissioner. 

TURKEY. 

Ibrahim Hakky Bey, Imperial Commissioner General; Ahmed Fahri 
Bey, Imperial Commissioner; Mr. Hohanries J. Pushman, Secretary; Mr, ^, 



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J. Sweeney, Honorary Commissioner; Mr. F. D. Thompson, Honorary Com- 
missioner; Capt. Mehmed Tevfik, Attache to Commission; Capt. Ahmed 
Sabit, Attache to Commission. 

URUGUAY. 

Senor Don Prudencio de Murguiondo, President; Don L. Rodriguez 
Diez, Special Commissioner; Don Alberto Gomez Ruano, Commissioner; 
Dr. Don Eduardo Chucarro, Commissioner; Don Ricardo Hughes, Com- 
missioner. 

VENEZUELA. 

Dr. Francisco E. Bustamante, E. E. and M. P., President ad honorem ; 
Dr. David Lobo, Secretary of Legation; Dr. Manuel Vicente Toledo, Com- 
missioner; Mr. J. M. Larralde, Commissioner; Mr. Jacinto Lopez, Commis- 
sioner; Dr. H. Rivero Saldivia, Consul General, Councilor; Mr. J. A. 
Sanchez, Commissioner ad honorem; Mr. A. S. Baker, Commissioner ad 
honorem; Mr. Manuel Cadenas, Commissioner «<^/z^;?<9r^w; Dr. A. Ernst, 
in charge' of relics, etc.. Foreign Affairs Department. 




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